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    Supports→Propositions about taste (e.g., 'soup is good') are only true or false relative to individuals, not absolutely.

    Unlike indexicals such as 'I'm hungry', taste sentences create a puzzle because the speakers appear to contradict each other even though both seem correct.

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    The contrast here with indexicals is apparently quite sharp. If I say “I’m hungry”, and you’re not hungry, you’d never reply to my utterance by saying “No, I’m not hungry”—precisely because it’s obvious that we would not be disagreeing. So again we have a puzzle: a puzzle about how each of our “soup” sentences could express true propositions, despite those propositions contradicting each other. Relativism suggests an answer: these propositions are only true or false relative to individuals. The

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