emotivistadj.n.

1948 Rev. Metaphysics 1 108 The emotivist view, on the contrary, is that the expressing of one's valuations, and the description of the world, are separable activities, and that the former occurs separately from the latter in the simpler ethical statements.

1962 F. Ferré in K. Bendall & F. Ferré Exploring Logic of Faith iv. 59 The emotivist philosophers who place exclusive emphasis on this dimension of religious meaning.

2000 F. Kerr in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 754/2 Wittgenstein's work thus played a part in encouraging philosophers and others to regard metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and theology in reductionist, non-cognitive, and emotivist terms.

1949 Philos. Rev. 58 328 He formulates a position in ethics which is closer in motivation to that of the ‘emotivists’ than he thinks.

1951 Mind 60 390 Showing where the Emotivist and the Existentialist go wrong.

1975 H. Putnam Mind, Lang., & Reality (1997) ix. 163 The emotivist claims that ethical sentences typically have some emotive force.

2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Apr. 72/2 The emotivists..took moral utterances to be merely expressions of emotion..devoid of truth or falsity.