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SUMMARY:Gradable Predicates of Experience
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LOCATION:Cambridge\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p>Abstract: I provide a semantic analysis of the gradable predicates of experience (GPEs): is tasty\, looks red\, sounds like &lsquo\;yanny&rsquo\;\, and so on. On this&nbsp\;analysis\, unrelativized GPEs express a speaker&rsquo\;s graded assessment of their experience (in an intuitive sense\, for which I will propose a&nbsp\;semantic formalization). Though the analysis is built to explain the &ldquo\;acquaintance inference&rdquo\; problematized by Pearson (2013)\; Ninan (2014)\,&nbsp\;it is shown to account for the behavior of GPEs under questions\, modal quantifiers\, and attitude verbs. It is also shown to account for&nbsp\;attested readings of attitude ascriptions embedding GPEs&mdash\;what I call phenomenal readings&mdash\;which other accounts have ignored (while&nbsp\;providing appealing analyses of cases figuring centrally in certain debates in the philosophy of mind). Finally\, it suggests an appealing&nbsp\;account of the semantic categories of autocentricity and evaluativity\, while explaining the divergent behavior of sentences of these categories&nbsp\;with respect to linguistic expressions of disagreement.</p>
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