Briefly explain the emotivism of A. J. Ayer.
Emotivism, as laid out in Ayer’s Language, Truth, and Logic, is a different understanding of what ethical statements convey. In emotivism ethical statements are not statements of truth or fact but statements that reveal a person’s feelings toward a certain situation and the response that they expect from others. So when someone states ” I should not have cheated” the only part of the statement that is factual is that the person cheated. The ethical part “should not” is not factual but just an expression of that person’s feelings toward cheating. Ethical statements also give commands or expectations to those that hear them. The sentence “You should not cheat” is most obviously a command to others to not cheat. This ethical statement
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