The subtleties of fit: reassessing the fit-value biconditionals.

A joke is amusing if and only if it's fitting to be amused by it; an act is regrettable if and only if it's fitting to regret it. Many philosophers accept these biconditionals and hold that analogous ones obtain between a wide range of additional evaluative properties and the fittingness of corresponding responses. Call these the

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Conflict of interestThe authors contributed equally to this work. Partial funding was received from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 789270).