Plasmon comments on On Empirical Truth and Affective Truth - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Plasmon 01 September 2015 07:43:08PM -1 points [-]

As I understand it, "This painting is beautiful" is completely equivalent to "I like (the visual aspects of) this painting".

Definitional arguments are not useful. Even using your interpretation, the point stands: the statement, properly understood, is empirical truth.