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is a descriptivist theory, not an expressivist one because it maintains that moral sentences are used to represent facts - namely, facts about the subject's psychological states.

Historical development: from noncognitivism/emotivism to cognitivist expressivism

Some early versions of expressivism arose during the early twentieth century in association with logical positivism. These early views are typically called "noncognitivist". A. J. Ayer's

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