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II 149
Effect/meaning/language/words/Black: emotive effect (of meanings) possible. - But emotive effect is not the same as emotive meaning.
II 148/149
Emotive meaning/black: important works by I.A. Richards(1). Autonomous function of poetry.
Def Emotive Meaning/Charles Stevenson(2): is a meaning in which the reaction of the listener or the stimulus of the speaker consists in a scale of feelings.
BlackVsCausal Theory: this presupposes a causal theory. (s) Causal theory here is used in a different sense than in Kripke).
II 150
Black: We must distinguish between the emotive influence (effect) of words and their possible emotive meanings.


1. Richards, I. A. (1925) Principles of Literary criticism. London and New York.
2. Stevenson, Ch. (1944) Ethics and Language. New Haven, Connecticut.

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