absolutism - In ethics the idea that right and wrong is fixed at all times and for all people, cognitivism - The belief that moral statements are truth-apt (can be true or false)., emotivism - The theory which says that moral statements are not statements of fact but expressions of approval or disapproval., intuitionism - The theory which says that moral truths are indefinable and self-evident., meta-ethics - From the Greek ‘meta’ meaning ‘above’ and ‘beyond’. The study of the meaning of ethical language., moral realism - The belief that moral properties like right and wrong are real; they actually exist independently of the human mind., moral anti-realism - The belief that moral properties like right and wrong are not real; they do not actually exist independently of the human mind., naturalism - The theory which says that moral values can be correctly defined in terms of a natural property of the world., non-cognitivism - The belief that moral statements are not truth-apt (i.e. they cannot be true or false)., relativism - The idea that what is right or wrong is not fixed but is dependent on situation or culture., Vienna circle - A group of philosophers known as logical positivists who rejected claims that moral truth can be verified as objectively true., Hume's Law - You cannot go from an 'is' (a statement of fact) to an 'ought' (a moral statement), naturalistic fallacy - The informal logical error of assuming that something is good or right simply because it is natural, or that something is bad or wrong because it is unnatural.,

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