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Originally Posted by False Dawn
You don't really have a clue what you just said there, do you, ingrey? D:
It may say something about his psychological state, but why does that matter? Surely if you like anime, and like discussing anime, then it should be a discussion and if then someone says that something sucks, then there should be a reason for it, whether it's that the person doesn't like harem series, or it was too complicated, etc. The only thing saying "it sucks" comments on his psychological state is that he doesn't have a brain to form sentences that
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Actually, I knew exactly what I was saying, and I said it clearly, if briefly. I suggest being careful in the future of accusing people of ignorance if you aren't completely sure you have mastery of the subject under discussion. My point is pretty simple, if we want to say of the sentence "Air Sucks," that it expresses a proposition, then that proposition is going to be about how he feels in respect to the show. And moreover, unless he's lying, it's also going to be true. Sure, he could provide additional information about why that proposition is true, which would be constituted by facts about his particular psychology (tastes), but it doesn't at all follow that he needs to provide those other facts. In the same way, you could say that "Air is wonderful and does not suck." and the proposition that sentence expresses would also be true, if you aren't lying.
The only way fruit, or you for that matter, would need to offer justification for a sentence like "Air sucks!" would be if you accepted an analysis under which Suckness is some kind of objective value property such that some things have the property of sucking, and other do not, independent of anyone's particular tastes. And in that case, you would need to provide reasons why Air happens to have the property of suckiness. But this is an absurd position that no one in their right mind would adopt, so it isn't necessary to provide any justification for why sentences of this kind are true, if they are true. If this isn't clear to you, then just think of sentences like "Air Sucks" as analogous to sentences like "Vanilla ice cream is terrible." They don't need to be justified because they're nothing more than expressions about the tastes of an individual.