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The MD normativist might also argue, as indicated above, that normativism prevents the problem of error from arising.

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It has been argued that this move fails to strengthen the normativist case.

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Other options for the guidance normativist are to conceive of (NB4) as the basic norm for belief, or to construe the nature of belief as given by both (NB4) and (NB1) (Wedgwood 2007, 162) or

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The normativist can argue that for instance the supervenience base that non-normative dispositionalism works with needs to be restricted: It is not the whole of a speaker's dispositions to use their terms that determines meanings, but only a certain kind of disposition and this kind can only be specified by means of its normative properties.

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The standard normativist strategy consists in appealing to the use of concepts in propositional attitudes, and to derive the normativity of content from that of the propositional attitudes.

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If so, it would seem that further arguments are required to resolve the dispute, beyond the appeal to intuitions: The normativist would have to provide some reasons why the non-normativist notion of correctness is not a notion of semantic correctness.

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The difference between the two, again, is that the MD normativist is committed to the metaphysical priority of norms, since the norms are said to determine meaning, while the ME normativist remains neutral on the issue of meaning determination.

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But even though conventions are norms or rules somehow made by us, the MD normativist cannot simply claim, for instance, that it is a convention of English that ˜green™ means green.

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This essay discusses a number of central normativist theses with respect to meaning as well as to content.

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Broadly, there are three main options for the MD normativist (see section 1.2 above).

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