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  1. A philosophical position in the theory of
  2. ethics. Emotivists deny that moral judgements
  3. can be true or false, maintaining that they
  4. merely express an attitude or an emotional
  5. response. The concept came to prominence
  6. during the 1930s, largely under the influence
  7. of Language, Truth and Logic 1936 by A J
  8. Ayer.
  9.