POR QUE O EXPRESSIVISMO PURO NÃO FUNCIONA PARA INJÚRIAS?

Pure expressivism divides expressions between those that have only descriptive content and those that have only expressive content. The former, but not the latter, are apt to truth and falsehood. Hedger applies this distinction to slurs, and as result, they are considered terms with purely expressive content. His general argument is based in the projection behaviors of slurs and four evidences. In this sense, if it is true that racial slurs are not purely descriptive expressions, then they are expressions with purely expressive content. It is true that racial slurs are not purely descriptive expressions. Therefore, they are expressions with purely expressive content. In this paper, I present a counterexample to the pure expressivist thesis. Thus, I argue it is not the case that slurs are semantically different from descriptive terms, since they are semantically analyzable.