Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unrelated to moral or ethical considerations.
- adjective Having no moral or ethical standards; lacking a moral sense.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unconnected with morals; having no relation to ethics or morals; not involving ethical or moral considerations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Neither moral nor immoral; having no connection with morals; not within the sphere of morals or ethics; not ethical.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
non-moral .
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Examples
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And if that is true for Moore-paradoxical moral sentences, it should also go for Moore-paradoxical nonmoral sentences.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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According to Blackburn, it is not just the simple fact that moral properties supervene on nonmoral properties that needs to be explained.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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Nor is it just that appropriate moral predication must supervene on nonmoral predication, to put the point in a way that does not beg the question against non-cognitivism.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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Full and vivid awareness of relevant nonmoral facts.
Hanging 2009
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Moral realists have argued that moral disagreements very often derive from disagreement about nonmoral issues.
Hanging 2009
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Blackburn thinks that we require such an explanation even if there are metaphysically or nomically necessary connections between moral and nonmoral terms or properties.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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On this proposal the norms would be needed to represent the contents of the realist's thought because different realist theories might have the moral properties supervene on different nonmoral properties and a person could be a realist without being committed to the truth of any particular realist theory.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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Take a version of expressivism which says that a moral judgment that such and such an action is wrong predicates a nonmoral property of that action and at the same time expresses disapproval of that property.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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With this sort of difficulty in mind, Brandt (1954) undertook his own anthropological study of Hopi peoples in the American southwest, and found issues for which there appeared to be serious moral disagreement between typical Hopi and white American attitudes that could not plausibly be attributed to differences in belief about nonmoral facts.
Hanging 2009
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It is rather to explain how honoring the supervenience constraint can be a requirement of linguistic competence, even while there is no analytic entailment from nonmoral claims to moral claims.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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