Aesthetic assertion, aesthetic knowledge, and acquaintance inference

Simple aesthetic sentences normally give rise to an acquaintance inference (AI), inferences that the speaker has first-hand knowledge of the item being evaluated. For example, if I say, “Satantango is a beautiful novel”, my utterance suggests that I have read the book. How to explain AI? In this talk, I will propose that AI is better analysed as an epistemic conversational implicature (i.e. a conversational implicature based on our assumption about the epistemology of aesthetic judgment). I will also argue that my account is better than other proposals currently on the market (e.g. the entailment view, the presupposition view, the expressionist view, and the epistemic view. etc.).