Emotivism
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title:
Emotivism
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Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes. Hence, it is colloquially known as the hurrah/boo theory. 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, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson. Emotivism can be considered a form of non-cognitivism or expressivism. It stands in opposit
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Meta-ethical view
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotivism
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2003-06-22T22:50:50Z
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2024-09-14T19:46:12Z
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