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Definition of emotivism in English: emotivismnoun ɪˈməʊtɪvɪz(ə)m mass nounPhilosophy An ethical theory which regards ethical and value judgements as expressions of feeling or attitude and prescriptions of action, rather than assertions or reports of anything. Example sentencesExamples - Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
- The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism.
- The downside of the Catholic approach is that it can tend to dismiss all appeals to living discipleship as emotivism.
- Thompson was no fan of Orwell, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
- There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.
- In such logical analysis ethics could be dismissed as a species of emotivism.
- If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgement require the motivation not present in the amoralist.
Derivatives noun Philosophy He put forward an emotivist theory of ethics, one that he never abandoned. Example sentencesExamples - Logical Positivists loosely subscribed to an emotivist theory of meaning in connection with aesthetic, as well as moral terms.
- Whether this is sufficient to count such theories as emotivist or non-cognitivist is open to dispute, but many proponents of such views do call themselves non-cognitivists and emotivists.
- By implication, Sumner sounds here like a logical positivist, or perhaps a supporter of logical positivism's parallel outlook within the subfield of ethics, an emotivist.
- Spinoza gave what would now be called an emotivist theory of moral judgement.
Definition of emotivism in US English: emotivismnouniˈmodiˌvizəm Philosophy An ethical theory that regards ethical and value judgments as expressions of feeling or attitude and prescriptions of action, rather than assertions or reports of anything. Example sentencesExamples - There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.
- The downside of the Catholic approach is that it can tend to dismiss all appeals to living discipleship as emotivism.
- The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism.
- Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
- If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgement require the motivation not present in the amoralist.
- Thompson was no fan of Orwell, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
- In such logical analysis ethics could be dismissed as a species of emotivism.
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