Humberstone on Ayer’s Emotivism

Abstract

In The Connectives, Lloyd Humberstone offers an interpretation of A. J. Ayer’s emotivism using W. S. Cooper’s semantics for ordinary logic. In this discussion note, I argue that this proposed interpretation fails to stay true to Ayer’s view.

Keywords

• classical logic
• dual content
• emotivism
• ordinary logic
• transparent semantics