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Emotivism
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emotivism
A philosophical position in the theory of ethics. Emotivists deny that moral judgements can be true or false, maintaining that they merely express an attitude or an emotional response. The concept... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688
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emotivism
(from the article `ethics`) In his above-cited Language, Truth and Logic, Ayer offered an alternative account: moral judgments are neither logical truths nor statements of fact. ... ...function of moral language is not to state facts but to express feelings of approval or disapproval toward some act... Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/27
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Emotivism
Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes. Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotivism
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emotivism
A philosophical position in the theory of ethics. Emotivists deny that moral judgements can be true or false, maintaining that they merely express an attitude or an emotional response. The concept came to prominence during the 1930s, largely under the influence of Language, Truth and Logic 19... Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006598.html
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EMOTIVISM
Emotivism, or the emotive theory of moral judgements, maintains that moral utterances ( Found op http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/guide/glossary.shtml
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