Aesthetic Judgments, Evaluative Content, and (Hybrid) Expressivism

Aesthetic statements of the form ‘X is beautiful’ are evaluative; they indicate the speaker’s positive affective attitude regarding X. Why is this so? Is the evaluative content part of the truth conditions, or is it a pragmatic phenomenon (i.e. presupposition, implicature)? First, I argue that seman...

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Main Author: Jochen Briesen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing 2024-07-01
Series:Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/6159/
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