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The reason we can't find a criterion to determine the truth of ethical judgments is that ethical judgments
{ 1 } - have an "absolute" truth independent of sense experience.
{ 2 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 3 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
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The reason we can't find a criterion to determine the truth of ethical judgments is that ethical judgments
{ 1 } - have an "absolute" truth independent of sense experience.
{ 2 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 3 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
Ayer rejects this, because it posits ethical truths that can't be known empirically. These truths, if we assume that they aren't analytic, would violate his verifiability criterion of meaning.
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The reason we can't find a criterion to determine the truth of ethical judgments is that ethical judgments
{ 1 } - have an "absolute" truth independent of sense experience.
{ 2 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 3 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
Ayer sees ethical judgments as emotional expressions with no truth value.
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The reason we can't find a criterion to determine the truth of ethical judgments is that ethical judgments
{ 1 } - have an "absolute" truth independent of sense experience.
{ 2 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 3 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
This is subjectivism. Ayer rejects this, since he doesn't think that moral judgments are "true" or "false" at all.
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The reason we can't find a criterion to determine the truth of ethical judgments is that ethical judgments
{ 1 } - have an "absolute" truth independent of sense experience.
{ 2 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 3 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
One of the above answers is just fine.
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