 that the interlocutors'meant to be talking of themselves and of their own tastes, and, therefore, did not really mean to contradict each other'(2007: 693).
I think this argument can be interpreted in two ways. According to the first interpretation, retreating to explicit relativizations has to actually happen in a dialogue. According to the second, retreating can remain a mere possibility for the speakers. 28 In its first interpretation, the argument is weak: even if retreating in the way Stojanovic suggests is possible, or even widespread, interlocutors can keep disagreeing without retreating (as Stojanovic herself acknowledges) -depending on their spare time, whim or argumentative skills. Ignoring such cases in favour of the ones in which an interlocutor actually retreats is methodologically faulty. Further, retreating to explicit relativizations is not necessarily a sign that disagreement was missing in the first place. There are many reasons why interlocutors might retreat: among them, the mere desire to stop the exchange, the signaling of a concession without giving up entirely, the realization that their position is problematic and that more thought needs to be put into it etc. None of these situations is incompatible with there being a disagreement before the retreat was made. (In fact, some of the reasons mentioned above only make sense if we assume that there was a disagreement -for example, conceding.) So, the most that retreating by using relativizations of the kind mentioned shows is that the interlocutors don't disagree anymore, not that they didn't disagree in the first place. The second interpretation of the argument fares no better: despite having the advantage of not overlooking certain data, the considerations above apply mutatis mutandis. Invoking retreating to explicit relativizations -whether actual or possible -as a separate argument against treating exchanges like those in DIALOGUE-EGO as cases of disagreement simply doesn't work.

Conclusion
In the previous section I surveyed several considerations found in the literature that could be used as arguments (or beginnings of arguments) for the refusal to consider the exchange in DIALOGUE-EGO as a case of disagreement. As we have just seen, these arguments are not very convincing. Given that appeal to sheer intuitions is not a methodologically kosher way to go here, the conclusion is that no good reasons have been given to exclude the exchange in DIALOGUE-EGO as a case of disagreement. Such an exchange can thus stand as the central case on which the relativist bases her challenge. Given that the contextualist strategy investigated in section 2 is silent with respect to DIALGUE-EGO, it follows that it is not a satisfactory answer to the challenge from disagreement. Now, another strategy is available to the contextualist that appeals to the uses of predicates of taste showcased above. The strategy consists in accepting that the exchange in DIALOGUE-EGO is a case of disagreement, but claiming that, while disagreement in the other exchanges (DIALOLGUE-EXO, DIALOGUE-COL, DIALOGUE-GEN and DIALOGUE-META) is both semantic and should be explained by appeal to (CD), the disagreement in DIALOGUE-EGO is either not semantic or should be explained by appeal to other notions of disagreement -for example, those mentioned at the beginning of section 2. Such a mixed contextualist view would have the advantage of not having to reject an exchange that intuitively looks like a case of disagreement, of not making ad-hoc moves and of not having to appeal to additional theoretical claims. However, such a mixed strategy would be viable only if it provides a principled reason for treating the disagreement in DIALOGUE-EGO and the disagreement in the other exchanges differently. For, at least on the face of it, all the exchanges are extremely similar -in fact, the sentences that appear in them are identical. And since a good methodological principle is to treat similar cases similarly, the contextualist owes us an answer. Of course, the contextualist can claim that disagreement in none of the cases above is semantic or that it should be accounted for by appeal to (CD). As I made clear, investigating such strategies is beyond the reach of this paper. As far as the strategy focused on here is concerned, accounting for disagreement in exchanges like DIALOGUE-EGO remains a challenge. 29 N O T E S 1 Intuitions are a tricky business, and it is far from clear to what extent they should be trusted; however, I'm assuming here that intuitions such the one present in DIALOGUE should be trusted to some degree. It should be also noted that the contextualists I will be dealing with in what follows, although perhaps rejecting the intuition of disagreement in certain cases, don't reject it in exchanges like DIALOGUE across the board.
2 Options: by complying with the character of predicates of taste, conceived as indexicals (perhaps following Rothschild and Segal's (2009) treatment of color terms); by saturating a variable for standards of taste found in their syntactic configuration (e.g., Stojanovic 2007; Schaffer 2011); by saturating more than one variable, when construed as akin to gradable adjectives (Glanzberg 2007); by pragmatic processes of the kind postulated by truth-conditional pragmatists (e.g., Recanati 2004).This is part 7 of a 13 part series identifying who Wildstory is, what the intricacies of branding are, and how this can all benefit you.
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I'd like to receive your feedback on my improvisation here.
The chord progressions are E major, Db minor, A major and Bb major.
The solo were mostly based on E Major scale.. i think so..
I'm going to develop it to be a full song.
I would appreciate any comment from you guys.
I think I heard a flat string or chord that sounded a little out of place in the rythm. Maybe the guitar was out of tune I don't know.
Otherwise, it sounds great. Nice and laid back. Could be the intro and/or outro of a rock tune. Or just a soft rock thing all by itself.
For an improvisation it's not that bad. But I'd look for a more interesting chord progression... it's some progression you heard very often... Don't want to shock you or something, if you like it: keep it on and expand on it...
Yeah, it's a blue moon progression for me, but that's neither here nor there really as it's your improv we wanna assess.
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