The place of value in natural language : a non-factualist approach to evaluative terms and judgment
Thesis
French
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Abstract
This is a dissertation about words like good, better, bad, beautiful, fun or cruel. I defend a form of non-factualism, which is the view that evaluative sentences do not offer information about the world. Instead, they express and coordinate commitments about action. But evaluative adjectives are gradable, which means that they accept different degrees. Therefore, non-factualism has to be formulated in a way that evaluative sentences can express practical commitments that have the appropriate scalar structure.