cognitivism

British

/ ˈkɒɡnɪtɪˌvɪzəm /

noun

philosophy the meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments state facts and so are either true or false Compare emotivism prescriptivism See also naturalism non-naturalism

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Non- cognitivism argues that values are not cognitive because they do not necessarily make statements about properties of things or states of events and have more to do with a psychological state of mind.

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