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Emotivism

Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims 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…

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Emotivism → An Enquiry Concerning, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Ayer, Berkeley, Bernard Rosen, Brace, Brandt, Clarendon Press, Co, Colin, Critics, Critique, Date, David, Dordrecht, Douglas, Dover Publications, Editor's Introduction, Emotion, Englewood Cliffs
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Emotivism → Actual, Ayer, Ayer's, Critique, Ethics, Exhortations, In, Language, Logic, Propositions, Theology, Truth
related to C. L. Stevenson · 12
Emotivism → An, Ayer, Ayer's, Ethical Terms, Ethics, In, Language, Stevenson, Stevenson's, Terminology, The Emotive Meaning, Where Ayer
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Emotivism → Brandt, Ethical Theory, Ethics, Furthermore, His, James Urmson's, Language, Richard Brandt, Stevenson, Stevenson's, The Emotive Theory, Utilitarian
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Emotivism → An Enquiry Concerning, David Hume, Decades, George Berkeley, Hume, In, Moore, Morals, Principia Ethica, Principles, Stevenson's
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Emotivism → Ayer, Barnes, Duncan-Jones, However, Influential, Meaning, Ogden, Richards, Stevenson, The Meaning
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Emotivism → meta-ethical view that claims ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes

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