Yes. Clearly I was being unclear. Just as saying “Eating broccoli is good” I think assumes a tacit answer to “Good for whom?” and/or “Good for what?”, saying “Hamburgers are delicious” assumes a tacit “Delicious to whom?”, even if the answer is “To everyone!”. I have a hard time understanding what it means to visualize a possible world where everything is delicious and there are no organisms or sentients. I think of ‘beauty’ the same way, but perhaps not everyone does; and if some people think of ‘fairness’ as intrinsically—because of the concept itself, and not just because of our metaphysical commitments or dialectical goals—demanding an implicit argument place for a ‘judge of fairness,’ I’d like to hear more about why. Or is this just a metaphysical argument, not a conceptual one?
Grammatically, neither does “beautiful”. “Alice is beautiful” is a perfectly grammatical English sentence.
Yes. Clearly I was being unclear. Just as saying “Eating broccoli is good” I think assumes a tacit answer to “Good for whom?” and/or “Good for what?”, saying “Hamburgers are delicious” assumes a tacit “Delicious to whom?”, even if the answer is “To everyone!”. I have a hard time understanding what it means to visualize a possible world where everything is delicious and there are no organisms or sentients. I think of ‘beauty’ the same way, but perhaps not everyone does; and if some people think of ‘fairness’ as intrinsically—because of the concept itself, and not just because of our metaphysical commitments or dialectical goals—demanding an implicit argument place for a ‘judge of fairness,’ I’d like to hear more about why. Or is this just a metaphysical argument, not a conceptual one?