Disagreeing with Opaqueness

Recently, Stina Björkholm proposed a novel solution to the problem of lost disagreement on behalf of metaethical contextualists. The solution builds on the notion of an opaque question, which admits of both affirmative and negative answers that are semantically compatible. In this article, I challenge the notion by showing that Björkholm’s arguments fail to establish the existence of such questions. I also argue that opaqueness, in its more ordinary sense, can provide us with a promising way of solving the problem of disagreement. The opaqueness resides not in the nature of questions but in how speakers conceive of those questions.