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Critical discussion explores how language can be neutral, addressing various conceptions and constraints.
My topic here is semantic neutrality. In what interesting ways can language—or the meanings of particular expressions—be, or fail to be, neutral? Talk of neutrality might be developed in different directions. I critically discuss some different conceptions. Some of the discussion will concern the idea that it is an important desideratum on a semantic theory that it respect a particular kind of neutrality constraint.
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