>If now I...say 'Stealing money is wrong', I produce
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>If now I...say 'Stealing money is wrong', I produce a sentence which has no factual meaning -- that is, it expresses no proposition which can be either true or false. It is as if I had written 'Stealing money!!' -- where the shape and thickness of the exclamation marks show, by a suitable convention, that a special sort of moral disapproval is the feeling which is expressed. It is clear that there is nothing said here which can be true or false.
>>7896334
This person is just begging to be robbed
are you pro or against emotivism?
>'stealing money is wrong' expresses no proposition which can be either true or false.
what the fuck am i reading
>where the shape and thickness of the exclamation marks show, by a suitable convention, that a special sort of moral disapproval is the feeling which is expressed.
>>7896733
>what the fuck am i reading
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