Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 064 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Emotivism
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The idea
Emotivism holds that moral utterances do not report attitudes; moral utterances express attitudes and urge others to share them.
In practice
A fan's "Boo!" at a referee states nothing true or false; emotivism reads moral talk the same way — expression plus influence.
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