@article {Dharamsi:2008:1872-261X:167, author = "Dharamsi, Karim", title = "From Norms to Uses and Back Again", journal = "Journal of the Philosophy of History", volume = "2", number = "2", year = "2008", abstract = "I defend the idea that Collingwood's discussion of self-knowledge implies that meaning is normative. Against the view that treats the social as primitive in explaining a normativity of meaning thesis, I argue that Collingwood is an internalist about epistemic justification. Collingwood's internalism about epistemic justification and meaning is normative, but its character involves a logical-epistemic relation between use and meaning. I suggest that this view is well represented by Collingwood's idea of history.", pages = "167-184", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/jph/2008/00000002/00000002/art00003", doi = "doi:10.1163/187226308X315022", keyword = "COLLINGWOOD, HISTORY, MEANING, USE, JUSTIFICATION, EPISTEMOLOGY, NORMS, HUMAN NATURE" }