"A Semantics of Overall Goodness"
Robert Shanklin

This paper argues for a quantificational semantics of sentences such as Òthis movie is good.Ó Section 1 presents two recent semantic theories of "good"; section 2 points out the linguistic facts that these theories leave unexplained. Section 3 advances a quantificational semantics of "good" which better explains these overlooked data. In section 4, I relate my account to an additional observation that motivates most analyses of goodness, namely: that the relevance of our judgments about the good to the choices we make, is somehow reflected in the linguistic meaning of Ògood.Ó