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Slurs

Where a slur's derogation lives: content, presupposition, expressive meaning, or a social prohibition

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Language ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definesluroffence projectioncombinatorial externalismprohibitionismreclamation
Assumeshate speechexpressive meaningconventional implicatureat-issue content