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

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

Open Access
|Nov 2016

Abstract

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].

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0035 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6059 | Journal ISSN: 0860-150X
Language: English
Page range: 103 - 117
Published on: Nov 23, 2016
Published by: University of Białystok
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
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© 2016 Natalia Karczewska, published by University of Białystok
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