According to contextualism, the extension of claims of personal taste is dependent on the context of utterance. According to truth relativism, their extension depends on the context of assessment. On this view, when the taste preferences of a speaker change, so does the truth value of a previously uttered taste claim, and the speaker might be required to retract it. Both views make strong empirical assumptions, which are here put to the test in three experiments with over 740 participants. It turns out that the linguistic behaviour of ordinary English speakers is consistent with contextualist predictions and inconsistent with the predictions of the most widely discussed form of truth relativism advocated by John MacFarlane.

根据语境主义，个人品味主张的扩展取决于话语语境。根据真理相对主义，它们的扩展取决于评估的背景。根据这种观点，当说话者的口味偏好发生变化时，先前发出的口味声明的真实值也会发生变化，并且可能会要求说话者收回它。两种观点都提出了强有力的经验假设，在这里进行了三个实验，有740多名参与者对此进行了检验。事实证明，普通英语使用者的语言行为与语境主义的预测是一致的，与约翰·麦克法兰所倡导的最广泛讨论的真理相对论的形式的预测是不一致的。