Concept
Quasi-realism
Overview
Quasi-realism is the meta-ethical view which claims that:
Ethical sentences do not express propositions.
Instead, ethical sentences project emotional attitudes as though they were real properties.
This makes quasi-realism a form of non-cognitivism or expressivism. Quasi-realism stands in opposition to other forms of non-cognitivism (such as emotivism and universal prescriptivism), as well as to all forms of cognitivism (including both moral realism and ethical subjectivism).
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Philosophers who discussed Quasi-realism
Related ideas
- Moral nihilism
- Game theory
- Philosophical realism
- Fictionalism
- John Locke
- Truth value
- Expressivism
- Metaethics
- Non-cognitivism
- J. L. Mackie
- Emotivism
- Cognitivism (ethics)
- Natural rights and legal rights
- Iain King
- Simon Blackburn
- Jeremy Bentham
- Ethical subjectivism
- Relativism
- Contradiction
- David Hume
- Proposition
- Evolution
- Ethics
- Moral realism
Place in the tradition
Part of Anti-realism.