TY - JOUR T1 - Using “not tasty” at the Dinner Table JF - Organon F Y1 - 2017 A1 - Davies, Alex KW - MacFarlane KW - objectivism KW - predicates of personal taste KW - relativism KW - sociology AB - John MacFarlane argues against objectivism about “tasty”/“not tasty” in the following way. If objectivism were true then, given that speakers use “tasty”/“not tasty” in accordance with a rule, TP, speakers would be using an evidently unreliable method to form judgements and make claims about what is tasty. Since this is implausible, objectivism must be false. In this paper, I describe a context in which speakers deviate from TP. I argue that MacFarlane’s argument against objectivism fails when applied to uses of “not tasty” within this context. So objectivism about “not tasty” is still a viable position within this context. IS - 3 VL - 24 SP - 405-426 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2017/3/405-426.pdf U2 - Articles U3 - 405426 TI - Using “not tasty” at the Dinner Table ER -