If someone tells you a movie they saw was “too scary”, it may not be a fact about the movie, but about their dislike for horror movies, or fears surrounding the topic of the movie.
“X is too scary” is a local proposition. Scariness is not a property of an entity in itself. Scariness is a property of an entity in relation to a specified agent set. If someone tells you a movie is too scary, then it is always a fact about theirself and the movie.
That’s so, but there’s also a meaningful sense in which “the human centipede was too scary for Fred” is a fact about the movie, while “the very hungry caterpillar was too scary for Fred” is a fact about Fred.
One has a lot of predictive power for how other people will react to the same movie, and very little for how Fred will react to other movies. The other, vice versa.
“X is too scary” is a local proposition. Scariness is not a property of an entity in itself. Scariness is a property of an entity in relation to a specified agent set. If someone tells you a movie is too scary, then it is always a fact about theirself and the movie.
That’s so, but there’s also a meaningful sense in which “the human centipede was too scary for Fred” is a fact about the movie, while “the very hungry caterpillar was too scary for Fred” is a fact about Fred.
One has a lot of predictive power for how other people will react to the same movie, and very little for how Fred will react to other movies. The other, vice versa.