Abstract
Though predicates of personal taste (PPT) have been given a considerable amount of attention, aesthetic expressions have not. Perhaps this is because it is assumed that aesthetic expressions function semantically as PPTs do. There is, however, good reason to think that this is not so. PPTs are expressions of subjective opinion, whereas aesthetic expressions seem not to be. Qualified art critics are in a better position to evaluate artworks than novices. That observation places us in a difficult position, as critics often contest each others’ judgments, even when no clear error can be found. This finding, together with the observation that aesthetic judgments are not expressions of a subjective opinion, renders both standard non-relativistic semantics and standard relativistic semantics unable to accommodate aesthetic expressions. I outline a semantics that integrates the idea of an expert evaluator. Aesthetic predicates must be treated as a special kind of self-locating properties.