Emotivism
/ɪˈməʊtɪˌvɪzəm/
noun
1.
(ethics) the theory that moral utterances do not have a truth value but express the feelings of the speaker, so that murder is wrong is equivalent to down with murder Also called boo-hurrah theory Compare prescriptivism, descriptivism
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