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meta-ethical

meta-ethical is the alternative spelling of metaethical.

Meaning of metaethical

Adjective

metaethical (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to metaethics.
    • In particular, I argue that (i) moral folkism leads us to the deflationary conclusion that many of the normative and metaethical questions that philosophers discuss are settled by empirical facts about what ordinary folk happen to mean by their words — and so they're not settled by mind-independent...2020, Mark Balaguer, “Moral Folkism and the Deflation of (Lots of) Normative and Metaethics”, in José L. Falguera, Concha Martínez-Vidal, editor, Abstract Objects: For and Against, page 297

Questions about meta-ethical

What is meta-ethical the alternative spelling of?
Meta-ethical is the alternative spelling of metaethical.

Words near meta-ethical in the dictionary

  1. meta-biases
  2. meta-chlorophenylpiperazine
  3. meta-communication
  4. meta-communications
  5. meta-epistemology
  6. meta-ethical
  7. meta-ethics
  8. meta-ethnic
  9. meta-ethnicity
  10. meta-ethnographic
  11. meta-ethnographies

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