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Still problematic. What does it mean to have "poor" taste? I'll throw in the epistemic problem too: if I have poor musical taste, how will I know it?

• cronjobber 10y ago
  Though downvotes indicate that it isn't obvious, my suggested titles fix all these problems. Everybody can easily think that other people have poor musical taste, just subjectively. We now can "blame" their upbringing. If I think I have poor musical taste, I know that's a strange thing to believe, your "epistemic problem". I conclude that I have been led to believe this because people of quality claim to love Stockhausen and I don't.
  • unit91 10y ago
    It seems like this still conflates the quality of a person (objective) with the quality of one's music taste (subjective). Your example of quality (moral and rational, I assume) people loving Stockhausen and you not loving it informing your self-assessment only works if music taste is an objective good, like preferring non-murder to murder. Even then, we would need to know that preferring Stockhausen or non-murder is an objective good, since presumably preferring it is among the quality-making properties of your quality friends. So unless I can know which music is objectively good in a properly basic or evidential way, I'm stuck never knowing whether my music taste is good or bad. Or, as I think is the case, music taste is subjective.
    • cronjobber 10y ago
      https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/quality https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/quality of high social status “people of quality” “a quality family” Synonyms: upper-class occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society