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  • adjective ethics Pertaining to or advocating expressivism, the doctrine that the primary function of moral sentences and sensation sentences (like "I am in pain") is to express an evaluative attitude, rather than stating a fact
  • noun ethics An advocate of expressivism

Etymologies

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expressive +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Gibbard's more recent work (Gibbard 2003) retains many of the main features of his norm-expressivist theory but it revises to some extent the account of the non-cognitive attitudes involved in accepting a normative judgment.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • Gibbard suggests we can use an extension of possible worlds semantics to capture normative contents consistent with his norm expressivist analysis.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • This regress might not be vicious if the project is interpreted as an expressivist one, however.

    The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

  • And, he suggests, an expressivist can generate enough structure by complicating the story about what the attitudes in question are attitudes towards.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • But when we negate the attitude ascription constitutive of the simple expressivist analysis (Fred disapproves of murdering) we don't have enough candidate attitudes to capture all three.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • Several of the characters "quote" in this way, cobbling their self-presentation together out of pop psychology and cod sociology; this is not expressivist language, but language that reveals the speaker's cool factor.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • Like today's right, the '60s and' 70s left was emotional, expressivist and anti-intellectual ...

    Reflections of a former neoconservative 2009

  • Like today's right, the '60s and' 70s left was emotional, expressivist and anti-intellectual ...

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Several of the characters "quote" in this way, cobbling their self-presentation together out of pop psychology and cod sociology; this is not expressivist language, but language that reveals the speaker's cool factor.

    My Sister, My Love 2009

  • Worries of this sort make expressivist theories which are at the same time cognitivist (Copp 2001, Boisvert 2008) more attractive because they can claim many of the attractions of expressivism without the cost of seeming equivocation.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

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  • adj. Pertaining to or advocating expressivism, the doctrine that the primary function of moral sentences and sensation sentences (like "I am in pain") is to express an evaluative attitude, rather than stating a fact.
    I'm trying to think of a sentence that includes Wordnik AND advocates expressivism.

    February 2, 2016