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In this paper we engage with a recent absolutist view about predicates of taste: that of Wyatt (2017). Wyatt's view has the main advantage of providing a neat account of faultless disagreement, a phenomenon that has been taken to be problematic both for contextualism and absolutism. Wyatt's accont is based on two claims: that the semantic content of utterances of sentences conatinig predicaets of taste is different from the content of belief and assertions of such utterncess; and that disagrement is best construed as a clash of conative attitudes. We point out several negative aspects of each of these claims, and show that, while prima facie a promising way to fend off the challenge from faultless disagrement, ultimately the attempt is more problematic than envisaged.
