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Using “not tasty” at the Dinner Table

Organon F, 2017, vol. 24, No 3, pp. 405-426.
Language: English
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Abstract

John MacFarlane argues against objectivism about “tasty”/“not tasty” in the following way. If objectivism were true then, given that speakers use “tasty”/“not tasty” in accordance with a rule, TP, speakers would be using an evidently unreliable method to form judgements and make claims about what is tasty. Since this is implausible, objectivism must be false. In this paper, I describe a context in which speakers deviate from TP. I argue that MacFarlane’s argument against objectivism fails when applied to uses of “not tasty” within this context. So objectivism about “not tasty” is still a viable position within this context.

Keywords

MacFarlane, objectivism, predicates of personal taste, relativism, sociology

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