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Which claim ISN'T an important part of Ayer's defense of emotivism?
{ 1 } - Moral judgments must be emotive if they aren't truth claims.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments aren't analytic (since they aren't true by definition).
{ 3 } - All truth claims are either empirical or analytic.
{ 4 } - Moral judgments move us to action.
{ 5 } - Moral judgments aren't empirical (since "good" isn't definable in empirical terms).
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Which claim ISN'T an important part of Ayer's defense of emotivism?
{ 1 } - Moral judgments must be emotive if they aren't truth claims.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments aren't analytic (since they aren't true by definition).
{ 3 } - All truth claims are either empirical or analytic.
{ 4 } - Moral judgments move us to action.
{ 5 } - Moral judgments aren't empirical (since "good" isn't definable in empirical terms).
This was important in his reasoning.
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Which claim ISN'T an important part of Ayer's defense of emotivism?
{ 1 } - Moral judgments must be emotive if they aren't truth claims.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments aren't analytic (since they aren't true by definition).
{ 3 } - All truth claims are either empirical or analytic.
{ 4 } - Moral judgments move us to action.
{ 5 } - Moral judgments aren't empirical (since "good" isn't definable in empirical terms).
This was important in his reasoning, since analytic statements don't have to be empirical.
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Which claim ISN'T an important part of Ayer's defense of emotivism?
{ 1 } - Moral judgments must be emotive if they aren't truth claims.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments aren't analytic (since they aren't true by definition).
{ 3 } - All truth claims are either empirical or analytic.
{ 4 } - Moral judgments move us to action.
{ 5 } - Moral judgments aren't empirical (since "good" isn't definable in empirical terms).
This principle -- the verifiability criterion of meaning -- was important in his reasoning.
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Which claim ISN'T an important part of Ayer's defense of emotivism?
{ 1 } - Moral judgments must be emotive if they aren't truth claims.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments aren't analytic (since they aren't true by definition).
{ 3 } - All truth claims are either empirical or analytic.
{ 4 } - Moral judgments move us to action.
{ 5 } - Moral judgments aren't empirical (since "good" isn't definable in empirical terms).
Hume used this idea, not Ayer. Ayer reasoned this way:
All truth claims are either empirical or analytic. But moral judgments aren't empirical (since "good" isn't definable in empirical terms). And moral judgments aren't analytic (since they aren't true by definition). It follows that moral judgments aren't truth claims. But then they must be emotive.
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Which claim ISN'T an important part of Ayer's defense of emotivism?
{ 1 } - Moral judgments must be emotive if they aren't truth claims.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments aren't analytic (since they aren't true by definition).
{ 3 } - All truth claims are either empirical or analytic.
{ 4 } - Moral judgments move us to action.
{ 5 } - Moral judgments aren't empirical (since "good" isn't definable in empirical terms).
This was important in his reasoning.
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