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Predicates of Taste: Saturation vs. Free Enrichment |
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Date February 27th
Abstract Taste predicates are context-sensitive in that their truth seems to depend on the contextually determined standards of taste. Certain contextualist accounts hold that the standards are a matter of saturation, namely that there is a hidden variable for the standards in the logical form of the sentence. Free enrichment accounts hold that the standards are not in the sentence uttered, but a matter of optionaltop-down process. General arguments for distinguishing between saturation and free enrichment have been proposed by Stanley (2000)and Recanati (2002). I will argue that the results of applying these tests to expressions of taste do not favor saturation accounts over free enrichment accounts, and that by far there is no data to support one view rather than the other. |
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