2-Place and 1-Place Words by Eliezer Yudkowsky
People use "beauty" as if it's a 1-place word (objective metric), rather than a 2-place word ("beautiful to entity X").
Now anytime anyone says "X is best" I follow up with "for who? and in what context?"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eDpPnT7wdBwWPGvo5/2-place-an...
You don't need to invent a new langauge to express age-old ideas.
If you want to mathematize it, you can use standard terms like "relation" and "2-ary predicate".
2-Place and 1-Place Words by Eliezer Yudkowsky
People use "beauty" as if it's a 1-place word (objective metric), rather than a 2-place word ("beautiful to entity X").
Now anytime anyone says "X is best" I follow up with "for who? and in what context?"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eDpPnT7wdBwWPGvo5/2-place-an...