emotivism

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emotivism [ɪˈməʊtɪˌvɪzəm]

(Philosophy) Ethics 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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boo-hurrah theory cognitivism descriptivism noncognitivism prescriptivism			It's anti-political progressivism--in the forms of emotivism, for which politics is incidental to the insistence that all demands and desires be recognized as rights, and scientism, which frees us "from a supernatural power" only to make us "enslaved to a natural one. The house of liberalism by Poulos, James / The American Spectator Echoing MacIntyre’s diagnosis of how emotivism defines thought and discourse, Hunter told journalist Terry Mattingly in 1998: "The momentum is toward experience and emotions and feelings. The Manners In Which We Live by Rod Dreher / www.Culture11.com In his work, Ayer sought to refute the basis for objectivity with his theory of emotivism, wherein when an individual says, "X is good," he is only saying, "I like X. Economic science and the poverty of naturalism: C. S. Lewis's ... by Theroux, David J. / Journal of Private Enterprise			Emong emote emoticon emotion emotional emotional arousal emotional correctness emotional disorder emotional disturbance emotional illness emotional intelligence emotional literacy emotional person emotional state emotionalism emotionalist emotionality emotionalize emotionally Emotioned emotionless emotionlessness Emotions emotive Emotiveness emotivism Emotivity Emove EMP Empair Empaistic empale Empalement empanada empanel Empanoplied Emparadise Empark Emparlance Empasm Empassion Empassionate empathetic empathetically empathic empathically empathise empathize empathy Empawn Empeach			Emotioned Emotioned Emotioned Emotioned Emotionelle Erste Hilfe emotionless emotionless emotionless emotionless emotionless emotionlessness Emotions Emotions Emotions Emotions Emotions Emotions and Behaviours at Work Emotions and Human-Technology Interaction Emotions, Cognitions, Heredity and Outcome Emotiv Development Kit Emotival emotive emotive Emotive hardcore Emotive hardcore emotive language emotively emotively emotiveness emotiveness emotivism emotivist emotivist emotivist emotivists emotivists emotivists emotivity emotivity Emoto EMOV Emove Emoviolence EMOW EMOWG EMOYO EMP EMP Emp music EMP Pulse EMP Pulse EMP1 EMP2 EMP3 EMP4EMS EMPA EMPA EMPA EMPA EMPA EMPAA

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