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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Early use (1968) of Grice's "implicatum" by Slote in his reply to Hare and Foot

VALUE JUDGMENTS AND THE THEORY OF IMPORTANT CRITERIA.
Authors:SLOTE, MICHAEL ANTHONY
Source:Journal of Philosophy, 65, 94-112. 19 p. 22 F 1968.
Document Type:Journal Article
Subjects:ETHICS
METAETHICS
Persons as Subjects:FOOT, P
HARE, R
Abstract:AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO USE THE THEORY OF IMPORTANT CRITERIA TO MEDIATE BETWEEN THE POSITIONS OF R M HARE AND P R FOOT ON THE NATURE OF VALUE JUDGMENTS. IT IS ARGUED THAT THERE ARE CRITERIA FOR VALUE TERMS BUILT INTO THE MEANING OF SUCH TERMS, BUT THAT VALUE TERMS ALSO HAVE EMOTIVE MEANING OF A SORT EXPLICABLE IN TERMS OF GRICE'S THEORY OF CONVENTIONAL, BUT NON-LOGICAL, IMPLICATIONS.

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