cognitivists

Both speaker relativists and non-cognitivists can say that the appropriateness of a moral judgment depends on a speaker's attitudes.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Furthermore, while non-cognitivists accept each of the two negative theses outlined above, there are views which accept only one of the two without the other.

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This is not to say that there are not ways forward for the non-cognitivists.

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Typically non-cognitivists accept both negative theses, though there are views which accept one and not the other.

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But in another good sense non-cognitivists are naturalists.

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But if that is one of the criteria, non-cognitivists will be in a position to use psychological non-cognitivism as a reason to deny that moral judgments are truth-apt (Jackson, Oppy, Smith 1994).

Boys in White Suits 2009

It has been suggested that minimalism or deflationism about truth or truth aptness can ride to the rescue of non-cognitivists at this point.

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Moral statements appear to state moral facts and appear to be candidates for possessing a truth-value, and your claim and the claim made by moral non-cognitivists from Stevenson, to Ayer, to Hare, to Blackburn is that this appearance is systematically deceiving, or (since moral non-cognitivists exist in the small circles of the philosophically aware among us) very deceptive for the most part.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

Thus, fictionalists are psychological non-cognitivists.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Non-cognitivist success in handling the embedding problem and related worries about reasoning would put non-cognitivists in a stronger argumentative position.

Boys in White Suits 2009