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Ima Emotivist holds that "X is good" means
{ 1 } - "Hurrah for X!"
{ 2 } - "I like X."
{ 3 } - "We'd desire X if we were fully informed and impartial."
{ 4 } - "X is socially approved."
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Ima Emotivist holds that "X is good" means
{ 1 } - "Hurrah for X!"
{ 2 } - "I like X."
{ 3 } - "We'd desire X if we were fully informed and impartial."
{ 4 } - "X is socially approved."
Moral judgments are exclamations. They express our feelings, but aren't truth claims about our feelings.
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Ima Emotivist holds that "X is good" means
{ 1 } - "Hurrah for X!"
{ 2 } - "I like X."
{ 3 } - "We'd desire X if we were fully informed and impartial."
{ 4 } - "X is socially approved."
This is subjectivism -- which holds that moral judgments are truth claims about our feelings.
Emotivism says that moral judgments express feelings (as in "Hurrah for X!") -- but aren't truth claims about our feelings (as is "I like X").
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Ima Emotivist holds that "X is good" means
{ 1 } - "Hurrah for X!"
{ 2 } - "I like X."
{ 3 } - "We'd desire X if we were fully informed and impartial."
{ 4 } - "X is socially approved."
This is the ideal observer view.
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Ima Emotivist holds that "X is good" means
{ 1 } - "Hurrah for X!"
{ 2 } - "I like X."
{ 3 } - "We'd desire X if we were fully informed and impartial."
{ 4 } - "X is socially approved."
This is cultural relativism.
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