Abstract
There is something peculiar about aesthetic testimony. It seems more difficult to gain knowledge of aesthetic properties based solely upon testimony than it is in the case of other types of property. In this paper, I argue that we can provide an adequate explanation at the level of the semantics of aesthetic language, without defending any substantive thesis in epistemology or about aesthetic value/judgement. If aesthetic predicates are given a non-invariantist semantics, we can explain the supposed peculiar difficulty with aesthetic testimony.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 211-218 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Acta Analytica |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 27 Sep 2014 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2015 |
Keywords
- Aesthetics
- Testimony
- Intuitions
- Relativism
- Contextualism
- Truth