Noncognitivism
/ˌnɒnˈkɒɡnɪtɪˌvɪzəm/
noun
1.
(philosophy) the semantic meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments do not express facts and so do not have a truth value, thus excluding both naturalism and non-naturalism See emotivism, prescriptivism
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