emotivism

English

Etymology

emotive +‎ -ism

Noun

emotivism (countable and uncountable, plural emotivisms)

1. (ethics) The meta-ethical stance that ethical judgments, such as those containing the words "should" and "ought to", are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another.
   • 1999, Nigel Warburton, Philosophy: The Basics‎^[1]:

     Another important meta-ethical theory is known as emotivism or non-cognitivism. Emotivists ... claim that all ethical statements are literally meaningless.

Related terms

• emotionalism

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: emotivisme (nl) n
• Finnish: emotivismi
• Romanian: emotivism (ro)

See also

• noncognitivism

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French émotivisme.

Noun

emotivism n (uncountable)

1. emotivism

Declension

declension of emotivism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) emotivism	emotivismul
genitive/dative	(unui) emotivism	emotivismului
vocative	emotivismule