Emotivism has become embodied in our culture. (22) ChristopherE recently commented on my claim that contemporary morality is largely emotivist: I'm curious: the mention of "current-day emotivism" seems out of left-field. Most ethicists working today reject emotivism (though I'm not suggesting it's wrong!). I'm not sure why you mention it.

2024年1月17日 · Ayer's emotivism cannot explain moral discourse. This problem is known as the Frege-Geach problem.If a moral sentence (one could say proposition but I don't want to unnecessarily invoke association with entities such as "meanings of sentences") has only the content that asserting it has (like "close the window!"), it is impossible to understand reasoning …

2015年6月3日 · According to Wikipedia, Emotivism is '...a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes'. Wikipedia says that Quasi-realism is '... the meta-ethical view which claims that: …

2024年9月21日 · Emotivism (A.J. Ayer) is the meta-ethical theory that our ethical statements can be analytically reduced to emotional reactions (boo, hurrah). Death is an action which more often than not produces negative emotional reactions within those who are forced to witness it.

2021年12月18日 · Intuitionism, on the other hand, is a class of ethical systems that say that some ethical truths can be known with without inference, and since intuitionism believes the opposite of emotivism, that moral truths can be bearers of truth, it is a type of theory that belongs to cognitivism. Long Answer Languages and Inferences

Emotivism (A.J. Ayer) is the meta-ethical theory that our ethical statements can be analytically reduced to emotional reactions (boo, hurrah). Death is an action which more often than not produces ...

2024年10月10日 · In fact, taken to the extreme, the meta-ethical theory of non-cognitivism rejects the truth-aptness of ethical claims altogether, and emotivism replaces truth-aptness (oxfordreference.com) with an emotional calculus. From WP: Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes.

2023年6月17日 · Second, while (P) does not imply non-existence of moral facts, it strongly suggests their irrelevance to our moral discourse, and hence their elimination on parsimony grounds. That is the driving force for adoption of emotivism, e.g. by positivists. Moral sentimentalism, on the other hand, is more open to moral facts somehow prompting emotions.

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For other views, you can look into David Hume and the logical positivists; moral judgments here are characterized as reducible to emotion (emotivism), or meaningless, respectively. It seems clear to me that emotivism does not necessarily imply relativism especially if the statements in question are thought to have no truth value whatsoever.