meta-ethics

4. tautologically true or true by definition
7. the person who put forward the is-ought problem
8. the belief that right and wrong can be known empirically and that these truths reveal absolute moral standards
9. the belief that morals are unchanging, fixed truths that everyone should always follow
11. unable to be proved
12. able to be proved
13. empirically true or true by experience

1. the belief that there are no moral facts but that our ethical judgements are merely showing approval or disapproval
2. the view that morals truths are not fixed, and change in relation to time, place, culture, individual, and situation
3. added to ayers theory that not only are we making an emotional response, we are also trying to persuade others to have the same response
5. a form of cognitivism that holds that moral statements can be known to be true or false immediately through a kind of rational intuition
6. argued against emotivism, that emotions are based on beliefs. if one can show that beliefs are inaccurate, it is possible to change emotions
10. the person who put forward the open-ended question argument