Faultless disagreement without contradiction: expressive-relativism and predicates of personal taste.
In this paper we motivate and develop a new approach to predicates of personal taste within the framework of semantic relativism. Our primary goal is to explain faultless disagreement—the phenomenon where two parties disagree, yet both have uttered something true—which is often thought to arise from...
| Published in: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 31 - 65 |
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Feb2023
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