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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- 2.1 Thought and Feeling: Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism in the Twentieth Century
- 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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