Quantification and perspective in relativist semantics

Philosophical Perspectives 22 (1):305-337 (2008)
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Attempts to clarify some issues about the use of hidden arguments to predicates of personal taste, and motivate an analysis which does not make use of such arguments.

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10.1111/j.1520-8583.2008.00150.x

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