According to a problem identified by Peter Geach, this position entails that the phrase “It is wrong to tell lies” means something different in the conditional “If it is wrong to tell lies, then it is wrong to get your little brother to lie.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this non-cognitivist position that says that ethical sentences do not state facts, but rather convey the speaker’s evaluative attitudes. Emotivism is sometimes considered a form of it.
ANSWER: expressivism [or expressivists]
[10e] The aforementioned problem is co-named for this German author of “On Sense and Reference.”
ANSWER: Gottlob Frege (“FRAY-guh”) [or Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege; accept Frege–Geach problem]
[10h] The developer of this theory, Simon Blackburn, used commitment-theoretic semantics to address the Frege–Geach problem. This theory says that ethical sentences project the speaker’s attitudes as if they were statements about the world.
ANSWER: quasi-realism [or quasi-realists; prompt on projectivism or projectivists; reject “realism” or “realists”]
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