Organon F
Volume 28, August 2021, Issue 3, Pages 596–625
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on Value in Language
Value and Scale: Some Observations and a Proposal
Andrés Soria-Ruiz
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28306
In this paper, I investigate the scalar semantics of evaluative adjective in general, and of good in particular. Lassiter (2017) has argued that good, when taking propositions as arguments, has an interval scale. I argue that there’s evidence in support of the view that good, when taking individuals as argument, has a scale that is stronger than interval, but weaker than ratio. In particular, I propose that individual-level good has a “round” ratio scale, which allows a broader set of ratio transformations than standard ratio scales. This conclusion is consistent with the fact that good admits round ratio modifiers (twice as good), but eschews precise ones (# 1.38x as good). An important consequence of this view is that the scales of individual and propositional-level good are severed.
Evaluative adjectives, scalar semantics; metaethics.
Author
Andrés Soria-Ruiz 
Affiliation
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Address
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Campolide 1099-085 Lisboa, Portugal
Received
3 December 2020
Accepted
19 June 2021
Published online
30 August 2021
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Soria-Ruiz, A. (2021). Value and Scale: Some Observations and a Proposal. Organon F, 28(3), 596–625. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28306
Chicago
Soria-Ruiz, Andrés. 2021. "Value and Scale: Some Observations and a Proposal." Organon F 28 (3): 596–625. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28306
Harvard
Soria-Ruiz, A. (2021). Value and Scale: Some Observations and a Proposal. Organon F, 28(3), pp. 596–625. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28306
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