that ordinary ethical thought and discourse are committed to deep and pervasive error and that all moral statements make false ontological claims.

Distinction from descriptivist subjectivism

Expressivism does not hold that moral sentences, as used in ordinary discourse, describe the speaker's moral attitudes. Expressivists are united in rejecting ethical subjectivism: the descriptivist view that utterances of the type "X is good/bad" mean "You ought to do/ought not to do X". Subjectivism

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