the theory that moral utterances do not have a truth value but express the feelings of the speaker, so that murder is wrong is equivalent to down with murder
Also called: boo-hurrah theory. Compare prescriptivism, descriptivism
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emotivism
Under varying names - emotivism, prescriptivism, constructivism, irrealism, quasi-realism, or expressivism - they have embraced some form of ethical subjectivism or scepticism.