The acquaintance inference and hybrid expressivism
ABSTRACT: Sentences containing predicates of personal taste (for example, ‘tasty’, ‘funny’) and aesthetic predicates (for example, ‘beautiful’) give rise to an acquaintance inference: They convey the information that speakers have first-hand experience with the object of predication, and that they ca...
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| Natura: | Article (Journal) |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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2025
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Australasian journal of philosophy
Year: 2025, Volume: 103, Fascicolo: 1, Pages: 133-156 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6828 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00048402.2024.2379276 |
| Accesso online: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2024.2379276 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2024.2379276 
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| Note sull'autore: | Jochen Briesen, University of Konstanz |
| Riassunto: | ABSTRACT: Sentences containing predicates of personal taste (for example, ‘tasty’, ‘funny’) and aesthetic predicates (for example, ‘beautiful’) give rise to an acquaintance inference: They convey the information that speakers have first-hand experience with the object of predication, and that they can only be uttered appropriately if that is the case. This is surprisingly hard to explain. I will concentrate on aesthetic predicates, and firstly criticize previous attempts to explain the acquaintance phenomena. Second, I will suggest an explanation that rests on a speech act theoretical version of hybrid expressivism, according to which, in uttering ‘X is beautiful’ speakers perform two illocutionary acts simultaneously: an expressive and an assertive one. I will spell out this suggestion in detail and defend it against objections. Considering puzzles related to the acquaintance inference will lead to a new argument for a promising version of hybrid expressivism in meta-aesthetics. |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Online veröffentlicht: 16. Dezember 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1471-6828 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00048402.2024.2379276 |