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English
Etymology
From expressive + -ist.
Adjective
expressivist (not comparable)
- (ethics) Pertaining to or advocating expressivism, the doctrine that the primary function of moral sentences and sensation sentences (like "I am in pain") is to express an evaluative attitude, rather than stating a fact
2007 May 26, Michael Rubin, “Sound intuitions on Moral Twin Earth”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI:Since cognitivism is already a commitment of SEN, I see no harm in assuming it so long as we keep in mind that one possible lesson of MTE is that the content of moral predicates is non-cognitive or expressivist.
Noun
expressivist (plural expressivists)
- (ethics) An advocate of expressivism