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What premise is missing from Ima Emotivist's "logical positivism" argument?
Moral statements aren't empirical (testable by sense experience).
Moral statements aren't analytic (true by definition).
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So moral statements aren't genuine truth claims.
{ 1 } - People's "moral intuitions" depend greatly on social influences.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments are emotional exclamations.
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
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What premise is missing from Ima Emotivist's "logical positivism" argument?
Moral statements aren't empirical (testable by sense experience).
Moral statements aren't analytic (true by definition).
[... missing premise ...]
So moral statements aren't genuine truth claims.
{ 1 } - People's "moral intuitions" depend greatly on social influences.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments are emotional exclamations.
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
This wouldn't make the argument valid.
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What premise is missing from Ima Emotivist's "logical positivism" argument?
Moral statements aren't empirical (testable by sense experience).
Moral statements aren't analytic (true by definition).
[... missing premise ...]
So moral statements aren't genuine truth claims.
{ 1 } - People's "moral intuitions" depend greatly on social influences.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments are emotional exclamations.
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
This wouldn't make the argument valid.
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What premise is missing from Ima Emotivist's "logical positivism" argument?
Moral statements aren't empirical (testable by sense experience).
Moral statements aren't analytic (true by definition).
[... missing premise ...]
So moral statements aren't genuine truth claims.
{ 1 } - People's "moral intuitions" depend greatly on social influences.
{ 2 } - Moral judgments are emotional exclamations.
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
This premise, which is the central claim of logical positivism, seems to be self-refuting. Since this premise isn't itself either analytic or empirical, it would follow that it can't be a genuine truth claim.
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