Our main concern in this paper is the semantics of predicates of personal taste. However, in order to see these predicates in the right perspective, we had to broaden the scope to the wider class of relative gradable adjectives. We present an analysis of the meaning of these adjectives in the framework of update semantics. In this framework the meaning of a sentence is not identified with its truth conditions, but with its (potential) impact on people’s intentional states. In this respect, an important characteristic of relative gradable adjectives is the interplay between their evaluative features and people’s expectations. The dynamic set-up also makes it possible (a) to model the interpretation of a relative gradable adjective without supposing that the context always supplies a ‘cut-off’ point determining its application, and (b) to deal in a pragmatic way with situations in which the Sorites paradox arises.

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品尝和测试

我们在本文中主要关注的是个人品味谓词的语义。然而，为了从正确的角度看待这些谓词，我们不得不将范围扩大到更广泛的相对可分级形容词类别。我们在更新语义的框架中对这些形容词的含义进行了分析。在这个框架中，句子的意义不在于它的真值条件，而是在于它对人们有意状态的（潜在）影响。在这方面，相对可分级形容词的一个重要特征是它们的评价特征与人们的期望之间的相互作用。动态设置还可以 (a) 对相对可分级形容词的解释进行建模，而无需假设上下文总是提供确定其应用的“截止”点，