10 PART II: RIVAL THEORIES 6 Truth-Conditional Theories: It’s Just a Matter of Semantics 6.1 Truth-Conditional Theories of Slurs 6.1.1 The Case of Apparent Lack of Projection 6.1.2 An Attempt to Explain Away Projection: Derogation and Offense 6.2 A Truth-Conditional Theory of Thick Terms 6.2.1 The Core of the Proposal 6.2.2 Negative Strengthening 6.2.3 Clausal Implicatures 6.3 Conclusion 7 Deflationary Theories: It’s Just a Matter of Pragmatics 7.1 Deflationary Accounts of Slurs 7.1.1 Anderson and Lepore: Violating Prohibitions and Taboos 7.1.2 Bolinger: Co-occurrence Expectations and Contrastive Preferences 7.1.3 Nunberg: Markedness, Affiliation, and Manner Implicatures 7.1.4 A Note on Markedness 7.1.5 Slurs and Speech Acts 7.2 A Deflationary Account of Thick Terms 7.3 Conclusion 8 An Alternative Hybrid Theory: Conventional Implicature 8.1 Potts’ Proposal 8.2 Challenges 8.2.1 Interaction with the At-Issue Content 8.2.2 Complicity, Failure, and Backgroundness 8.3 Conclusion
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