Why I Believe In Objective Tastiness

According to a LessWrong post, some philosophers argue for 'tastiness realism'—the proposition that whether something tastes good is an objective fact, not merely an opinion. The author contends that this view explains why we can meaningfully judge culinary choices: claiming all food preferences are equally valid would mean someone eating a car or cereal with water instead of milk wouldn't actually be making a mistake. The piece uses this and other philosophical arguments to suggest that taste, like mathematics, can have truths that don't depend on what anyone believes.

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