{"id":4789,"date":"2020-02-23T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2020-02-23T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:05:53","slug":"response-to-noncognitivists-ctaa-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/23\/response-to-noncognitivists-ctaa-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Noncognitivists &amp; CTAA Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noncognitivists are incorrect in claiming that one can\u2019t make moral arguments. Noncognitivists claim that since it is impossible to make a true or false moral claim, that therefore it is impossible to make a moral statement or argument. However, this isn\u2019t a good argument. Their argument is based on the assumption that one can\u2019t make a true or false moral statement. While that may be true in the absolute scientific sense, people still can absolutely believe that moral claims are true or false. And because they can believe that, they can make arguments for or against those moral claims. Whether that claim can be proven true or false in an absolute sense in irrelevant. Arguments about them can still be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noncognitivists are incorrect in claiming that one can\u2019t make moral arguments. Noncognitivists claim that since it is impossible to make a true or false moral claim, that therefore it is impossible to make a moral statement or argument. However, this isn\u2019t a good argument. Their argument is based on the assumption that one can\u2019t make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}