Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste*

By Peter Lasersohn. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy

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Relative truth and the first person (2010, background): “Other authors do not make the distinction between context of evaluation and context of assessment, but take sentences with predicates of taste to have a truth value relative to a context of evaluation containing also a judge (thus extending the 'index') (Lasersohn 2005).”
Evidentiality and interrogativity (2017, background): “…subsequent turns that orient towards addressee knowledge. rspective flip is that questions contain ‘monstrous’ operators (in the sense of Kaplan, 1989) ly to an index that Lasersohn (2005) and McCready (2007) call the ‘judge’ (a role that could Alternatively, Sarah is a member of Jenny’s household.”
Judge dependence, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste (2007, background): “…of effort has gone into trying to either answer it or evade it (for example, by using descriptions like ‘‘what is known’’), in both the linguistics and the philosophy literature.1 Lasersohn (2005) discusses a similar puzzle that arises with ‘‘predicates of personal taste’’ such as tasty and fun.”
Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals (2011, background): “…may well regard the experiencer phrases as merely optional adjuncts, and the truth perspectivalist may well regard the experiencer phrases, not as arguments of “tasty” or “fun”, but rather as intensional operators that shift the position of the judge coordinate (Lasersohn 2005: 666, 668).”
Gradability in the nominal domain (2011, background): “multidimensional view of semantic composition with a theory of perspective taking in context such as Giannakidou and Stavrou (2008) and Lasersohn (2005). This way of relativizing the evaluation to a judge could also capture the facts illustrated above for evaluative adjectives. But there is a quirk.”
Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and its Applications (2014, methodology): “…at first in isolation from the emerging literature in philosophy, wrote an influential paper arguing for a relativist treatment of predicates of personal taste, employing a modification of Kaplan’s semantics for indexicals that was very similar to my own approach in “Three Grades” (Lasersohn 2005).”
The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “If the context is right, the perspective is not the speaker’s, but of the other salient individual (this fact is known as EXOCENTRICITY PUZZLE) (Lasersohn, 2005; Stephenson, 2007a,b; Anand, 2009):”
A Linguistic Framework for Knowledge, Belief, and Veridicality Judgment (2021, background): “Here we have what has been called in the literature faultless disagreement.(27) Two agents can be confronted with the same information or set of facts (body of evidence), but they can draw different conclusions on the basis of their differing sets of subjective assumptions about what counts as being”
Are They Different? Affect, Feeling, Emotion, Sentiment, and Opinion Detection in Text (2014, background): “Sokolova and Lapalme [35] acknowledged that sentiments should not be treated as identical to opinions because opinions can be expressed about a fact of matter, in a descriptive and assessing way, without the expressions being emotionally charged [36].”