Morality, Schmorality
Morality, Schmorality
The two “bad”s are intentionally nonidentical: one refers to a nonmoral notion of prudential badness (whatever is, all things considered, harmful to one's welfare), while the other refers to a kind of ostensibly distinct moral badness. The moral error theorist thinks that the predicate “is morally bad” is a logical predicate (in contrast to the semantic noncognitivist, who thinks that it is a predicate only in a grammatical sense), that sentences of the form “is morally bad” are generally uttered with assertoric force (in contrast to the pragmatic noncognitivist, who thinks that such sentences are used to perform some other linguistic function), and that the predicate “is morally bad” has an empty extension.
Keywords: nonidentical, prudential, noncognitivist, pragmatic, linguistic
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