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metaethical

metaethical adjective: of or pertaining to metaethics.

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

Forms of metaethical

alternative formmeta-ethical

Origin of metaethical

From meta- + ethical.

Words formed from metaethical

Questions about metaethical

What does metaethical mean?
Metaethical means of or pertaining to metaethics.
What part of speech is metaethical?
Metaethical is an adjective.

Words near metaethical in the dictionary

  1. metaepistemology
  2. metaescaline
  3. metaestrous
  4. metaestrus
  5. metaethic
  6. metaethical
  7. metaethically
  8. metaethics
  9. metaethnographic
  10. metaethnographies
  11. metaethnography

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