This paper combines elements from literature on gradability and meta-ethics to offer a non-factualist, hyperplan-based semantics for evaluative adjectives, more specifically for comparative uses of those adjectives. Broadly non-factualist proposals about evaluative language understand value attributions in binary terms, that is, in terms of the expression, on the part of the speaker, of a favorable or unfavorable attitude towards the object under evaluation. But it is not obvious how to extend non-factualism to cover comparative uses of evaluative adjectives, and my purpose is to amend this.
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