Non-cognitivism and wishful thinking
Even if non-cognitivists about some subject-matter can meet Geach’s challenge to explain how there can be valid implications involving sentences which express non-cognitive attitudes, they face a further problem. I argue that a non-cognitivist cannot explain how, given a valid argument whose conclus...
| מחבר ראשי: | |
|---|---|
| פורמט: | Journal article |
| שפה: | English |
| יצא לאור: |
Blackwell Publishing Inc.
2002
|
| נושאים: |
| סיכום: | Even if non-cognitivists about some subject-matter can meet Geach’s challenge to explain how there can be valid implications involving sentences which express non-cognitive attitudes, they face a further problem. I argue that a non-cognitivist cannot explain how, given a valid argument whose conclusion expresses a belief and at least one of whose premises expresses a non-cognitive attitude, it could be reasonable to infer the conclusion from the premises. |
|---|