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No Praise for Unknown Cakes: What Is the Source of the Acquaintance Inference?

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Based on utterances of sentences that contain predicates of taste hearers typically infer that the speaker has first-hand experience with the object being evaluated. That is, utterances of such sentences invoke an acquaintance inference . Various authors have argued that the acquaintance inference is due to peculiarities of predicates of taste. In the paper we critically discuss these proposals and reject them in favour of a version of an epistemic account, according to which the acquaintance inference results from peculiarities of knowledge about taste.

Source: Erkenntnis

DOI: 10.1007/s10670-024-00886-5

Author: Katharina Felka

Institution: University of Graz

Language: English

Topic: Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,290

Funder: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz