In J. Wyatt (ed.), Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics and Experimental Philosophy (forthcoming)
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This chapter compares simple predicates of personal taste (PPTs) such as tasty and beautiful with
their complex counterparts (eg tastes good, looks beautiful). I argue that the former differ from the
latter along two dimensions. Firstly, simple PPTs are individual-level predicates, whereas
complex ones are stage-level. Secondly, covert Experiencer arguments of simple PPTs
obligatorily receive a generic interpretation; by contrast, the covert Experiencer of a complex
PPT can receive a generic, bound variable or referential interpretation. I provide an analysis of
these facts based on a novel proposal about the licensing of individual-level predicates (the
‘Licensing Condition on ILPs’). This condition states that all covert pronominal arguments of an
individual-level predicate must be bound by the generic operator. Finally, I show that generic
construal of the Experiencer is a necessary condition for faultless disagreement. This is evidence
in favour of treatments of subjective meaning that appeal to genericity, and against relativism
about PPTs.
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