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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 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 3 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 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 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 3 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
Ayer rejects this (the intuitionist view), because it posits ethical truths that can't be known empirically. This (assuming that these truths aren't analytic) violates 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 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 3 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
This is subjectivism, which Ayer rejects.
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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 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 3 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 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 } - are true or false only relative to a specific person.
{ 3 } - have no objective truth value.
{ 4 } - none of the above.
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