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Zimmerman, David. 1980. Open questions, speech acts and analyticity. Philosophical Studies 37 (2) : 151–163.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

A major complaint of non-cognitivists in meta-ethical theories is that naturalistic accounts of value and obligation fail to accommodate, let alone to explain, the non-assertive speech act potential of sentences containing moral terms. The author tries to show that this complaint doesn't hold.