An empirical argument against moral non-cognitivism

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Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (6):1141-1169 (2023)
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1. The practice of morality raises the following two closely related questions in semantics and philosophical psychology: What do moral sentences mean? And what does it mean to make a moral judgeme...

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10.1080/0020174x.2020.1798280

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