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non-cognitivism

Theory that there is no such thing as knowledge of truths in a certain sphere because there are no such truths to be known.

The sphere normally intended by the term is ethics, and non-cognitivists adopt a speech act theory when analyzing what appear to be moral or value statements, emotivism and prescriptivism are forms of non-cognitivism, while descriptivism is a form of cognitivism.

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    • 2.2 A synthesis of moral realism, relativism, and non-cognitivism
    • 2.3 Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction
    • 2.4 Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
    • 2.5 The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique
    • 2.6 Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)
    • 2.7 The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
    • 2.8 Before Consciousness
    • 2.9 Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
    • 2.10 Conceptual and Non-conceptuality in Perception: Cognitivism and Perception

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