Moral Expressivism / Emotivism
Moral sentences are expressions of attitude, not reports of fact.
What it claims
Expressivism holds that the primary function of moral sentences is not to describe the world but to express the speaker's non-cognitive states. What it denies is cognitivism, the premise that moral sentences express propositions with truth values. The core argument is the motivational force of moral judgment.
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Key thinkers
A. J. Ayer · C. L. Stevenson · R. M. Hare · Simon Blackburn · Allan Gibbard