Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Citazione:
Taste fragmentalism / G. Spolaore, S. Iaquinto, G. Torrengo. - In: ERKENNTNIS. - ISSN 0165-0106. - (2023 Dec 01). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1007/s10670-023-00754-8]
Abstract:
This paper explores taste fragmentalism, a novel approach to matters of taste and faultless disagreement. The view is inspired by Kit Fine’s fragmentalism about time, according to which the temporal dimension can be constituted—in an absolute manner—by states that are pairwise incompatible, provided that they do not obtain together. In the present paper, we will apply this metaphysical framework to taste states. In our proposal, two incompatible taste states (such as the state of rhubarb’s being tasty and the state of rhubarb’s being distasteful) can both constitute reality in an absolute manner, although no agent can have joint access to both states. We will then develop a formalised version of our view by means of an exact truthmaker semantics for taste assertions. Within this framework—we argue—our linguistic and inferential practices concerning cases of faultless disagreement are elegantly vindi- cated, thus suggesting that taste fragmentalism is worth of further consideration.
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01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
fragmentalism; faultless disagreement; taste
Elenco autori:
G. Spolaore, S. Iaquinto, G. Torrengo
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