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WWW – Whiteboard Word Weactions For each of the following words, right the keywords/terms that come into your mind as relevant. 1 - logical positivism 2 - ethical naturalism 3 – cognitive 4 - non-cognitive 5 – intuitionism 6 - prima facie 7 - analytic/synthetic 8 - Vienna circle members

“Reason is and ought to be the slave of passion.” David Hume

Emotivism Read on…C.L. Stevenson emotivism in comparison with Ayer’s LO s To understand the basic foundations of the emotivism of Ayer To analyse how non-cognitive emotivism stems from logical positivism and is influenced by Hume To understand the relevance of analytic and synthetic statements (Hume’s fork) to emotivism

A.J Ayer Influences Explain, using the handout, the influence on Ayer from logical positivism and Hume. How does he depart/disagree/differ from these. For LPs use textbook and for Hume, use quote on sheet

Emotivism Summary notes from Mayled 170-172. Should include explanations of the following words… ayer, boo/hurrah, a quote, interpretation, subjectivism, rachels, smarties

WWW WWW to the following words 1 – ayer 2 - boo/hurrah 3 – subjectivism 4 – rachels 5 - smarties