The non-cognitivist then asserts that, since a proposition about an ethical property would have no referent, ethical statements must be something else.

Some thinkers working in the field of artificial life ( for example Rodney Brooks ) have also produced non-cognitivist models of cognition.

Most forms of moral nihilism are non-cognitivist and vice versa, though there are notable exceptions such as universal prescriptivism ( which is semantically non-cognitive but substantially universal ).

One emotivist counterargument ( although emotivism is usually non-cognitivist ) alleges that " wrong " actions produce measurable results in the form of negative emotional reactions, either within the individual transgressor, within the person or people most directly affected by the act, or within a ( preferably wide ) consensus of direct or indirect observers.

Conversely, if one believes that sentences like " Mary is a good person " cannot be either true or false, then one is a non-cognitivist.

) One implication of these beliefs is that, unlike the moral skeptic or the non-cognitivist, the subjectivist thinks that ethical sentences, while subjective, are nonetheless the kind of thing that can be true or false.

Hare is a non-cognitivist form of moral universalism.

According to some non-cognitivist points of view, these sentences simply assume the false premise that ethical statements are either true or false.

Universalist theories are generally forms of moral realism, though exceptions exists, such as the subjectivist ideal observer and divine command theories, and the non-cognitivist universal prescriptivism of R. M.

`` What would you have done in Montero's moccasins??

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

His presence would have interfered with her duty.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

An inch lower and it would have knocked him out.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??

Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.

However, many would disagree with this hypothesis ; in fact, many of the popular mouthwashes contain sodium lauryl sulfate as an ingredient ( e. g., Listerine Total Care ).

Gandhi did not disagree with Nehru's move, but felt that if he resigned, his popularity with Indians would cease to stifle the party's membership.

He did not disagree with the party's position but felt that if he resigned, his popularity with Indians would cease to stifle the party's membership, which actually varied, including communists, socialists, trade unionists, students, religious conservatives, and those with pro-business convictions, and that these various voices would get a chance to make themselves heard.

Many philosophers would disagree, claiming that the term " pessimism " is being abused.

Lightfoot would argue for the earlier date of Polycarp's death, to which Killen would strongly disagree.

It would appear that members of the same churches quite generally disagree as to these things.

Few could disagree with McGonagall's closing judgement: ' I must now conclude my lay / By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / That your central girders would not have given way ,/ At least many sensible men do say ,/ Had they been supported on each side with buttresses ,/ At least many sensible men confesses ,/ For the stronger we our houses do build ,/ The less chance we have of being killed '.

The corporate name became American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. Edward Noble remained on the new ABC's board of directors until his death in 1958 ; he and Goldenson would disagree at times over the direction ABC would now take.

Some suggest the first match with Fischer took a severe nervous toll, but others would disagree as he was a sportsman who appreciated his opponent's skill.

" Many voice experts would disagree with this choice of terminology, reserving the designation " head voice " for the high damped register accompanied by a relatively low larynx that is typical of modern high operatic tenor voice production.

If George Lucas and his movie American Graffiti were supposedly about Lucas's own Modesto teenage life, San Fernando Valley teenagers would disagree.

Some would disagree with Myres, as Cerdic is reported to have landed in Hampshire.

However, many theorists, scholars, practitioners, etc., would disagree and say that true peace, as such, cannot be enforced, particularly with arms or violent acts.

" Tehama " is believed to be an Indian word, but authorities disagree on the meaning, which has variously been reported as " high water ", " low land ", " salmon " or " shallow " — any of which would be an accurate description of a location where the river is normally shallow enough to ford, where fishermen are a common sight during the salmon run, and winter floods are a regular occurrence.

For example, most academics would agree that the Pentateuch was in existence some time shortly after the 6th century BCE, but they disagree about when it was written.

Who would disagree with her ?...

Hobbes concludes Part One by articulating an additional seventeen laws of nature that make the performance of the first two possible and by explaining what it would mean for a sovereign to represent the people even when they disagree with the sovereign.

" Elsewhere Wittgenstein put the same point by saying that if one were to add a negation sign before the whole of Sex and Character, one would have expressed a great truth ; that is, he did not disagree with Weininger point by point but as a whole.

However, tree-ring expert Mike Baillie would give credit to Velikovsky after disallowing the impossible aspects of Worlds in Collision: " However, I would not disagree with all aspects of Velikovsky's work.

He argued that platonic love between men was devoid of sexual activity, though Walter Pater would later disagree.