PHIL 24320 Lecture 10: Chapter 1 & Lectures 10 & 17: QBT 1 Notes / 9-28-16 / 11-9-16
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Value attributions = attribute (positive or negative) value to something - moral or ethical: Value realism (vr): not always erroneous, descriptive, and sometimes false. Because evaluating = type of describing true or false, value attributions. Though some can be true but not all are false. About whether it could be true or false, not about whether it"s known or believed to be true. The non-cognitivism about value (ncav): not always erroneous, not descriptive, and always false. Evaluating doest not = describing no true or false no true or false value attributions. Just like describing does not = commanding, exhorting, or questioning. The error theory of value/evaluation (etov): not always erroneous, descriptive, and always false. Evaluating = a type of misdescribing true or false. So contrary to ncav, value attributions true or false but, contrary to vr, value attributions are all false. Distinguish value realism from the following views: Value knowledgism (vk): descriptive and truths are known.
