Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 066 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Emotivism's Reasons Problem
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The idea
If moral talk aims only at influence, any consideration that sways a listener counts as a reason — and the tie between reasons and evidence is cut.
In practice
A fabricated rumor that changes minds would count as well as a fact. A theory that cannot separate persuasion from evidence has lost something.
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