The inferential meaning of controversial terms: the case of "terrorism"

Gascón, José Ángel

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The inferential meaning of controversial terms: the case of "terrorism"

dc.contributor.author	Gascón, José Ángel
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-09-03T07:28:48Z
dc.date.available	2025-09-03T07:28:48Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-20
dc.description	© 2023, The Author(s). This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Topoi. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09879-x
dc.description.abstract	The international community has not been able to agree on a definition of “terrorism,” which has been a controversial term for decades. In order to understand the controversy, here the meaning of “terrorism” is analysed by means of the inferentialist framework developed by Robert Brandom. It will be shown that there is wide agreement about (at least some of) the consequences of application of the term, whereas the conditions of application are precisely what is at issue. Three consequences of application will be distinguished: epistemic, evaluative, and programmatic. Evaluative and programmatic consequences of application of the term “terrorism” are widespread and very serious, even in the absence of a precise definition, and that explains why the conditions of application are a controversial matter. In the end, the controversy is best understood as a clash of interests regarding when the consequences of the term should apply.	es
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dc.format.extent	13	es
dc.identifier.citation	Topoi (2023) 42:547–559
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09879-x
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0167-7411
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1572-8749
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/158063
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Springer	es
dc.relation	Proyecto “Prácticas argumentativas y pragmática de las razones” (PGC2018-095941-B-I00)	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-022-09879-x
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Atribución 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Brandom	es
dc.subject	Concepts	es
dc.subject	Controversy	es
dc.subject	Definition	es
dc.subject	Inferentialism	es
dc.subject	Meaning	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología::16 - Lógica. Epistemología. Teoría del conocimiento	es
dc.title	The inferential meaning of controversial terms: the case of "terrorism"	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es