If eavesdropper intuitions—the primary evidence for cross-context truth-value shifts—are explicable within a sophisticated contextualism, the puzzle loses its force as an argument against contextualism.
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contextualism(Presented as a rival to relativism for handling taste predicates)
A semantic view on which the truth conditions of an utterance are determined by features of the context in which the utterance is made, such that two speakers in different contexts may both utter true but contextually indexed propositions