Language and legitimacy: Is pragmatist political theory fallacious?

European Journal of Political Theory 18 (2):293-305 (2017)
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Eva Erman and Niklas Möller have recently criticised a range of political theorists for committing a pragmatistic fallacy, illicitly drawing normative conclusions from politically neutral ideas abo...

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