Disagreement about Taste as Disagreement about the Discourse: Problems and Limitations

• Authors: Natalia Karczewska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the present paper I present the metalinguistic solutions to the ‘lost disagreement’ problem proposed (independently) Sundell and Plunkett [2013] and Barker [2012]. I argue that metalinguistic negotiations about taste, even though successful in explaining the intuition of disagreement in a vast number of cases, are not an accurate solution to the disagreement problem in contextualism when it comes to the most paradigmatic case of “tasty”. I also argue against the account of faultless disagreement explained via vagueness of taste predicates [Barker, 2012]. I believe that the notion of faultlessness employed in the discussion of vagueness [Wright, 1994] is a different notion than the one employed in the discussion of taste discourse [Kölbel, 2003].

Keywords

EN

faultless disagreement; lost disagreement; contextualism; predicates of personal taste; metalinguistic negotiations; vagueness

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-117

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-11-23

Contributors

author

Natalia Karczewska

• University of Warsaw

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2016-0035