1. In his article, Horn discusses the inadequacy of both the semantic and pragmatic strategy of explaining the meaning behind racial slurs. In doing so, Horn advocates the combinatorial externalism view. The CE view suggests that the meaning of racial slurs are derived from the racist institutions they connected to and the negative properties they are intended to express.
2. Camp argues that racial slurs are more related to the perspectives of the user of those slurs. She states that slurs are used to communicate the strong negative perspectives towards a specific group. In this way, slurs are used to derogate rather than simply express contempt.
3. Although I find Camp's thoughts about slurs being used to derogate compelling, I agree more with Horn's combinatorial externalism viewpoint. I think that combinatorial externalism does more to account for the history behind slurs and how that contributes to their meaning by connecting slurs to racist institutions.
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