Question

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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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2214.0991%18%32%

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Florida BChicago C010010
Ohio State AMcGill A0101020
Rutgers AHouston A010010
Claremont ANYU A010010
Chicago AHarvard A10101030
Minnesota AMaryland A0101020
North Carolina AImperial A0101020
Penn AVanderbilt A010010
Brown AStanford A10101030
Yale ATexas A010010
South Carolina AYale B010010
Florida AColumbia B10101030
Cornell AJohns Hopkins A0101020
Michigan APenn State A1010020
UC Berkeley BRutgers B0000
WUSTL BColumbia A010010
Minnesota BNorthwestern A0000
Purdue AIndiana A010010
WUSTL AToronto A010010
MIT ADuke A010010
Chicago BUC Berkeley A010010
Iowa State AVirginia A010010