ss of statements depends on the mental state or reactions of the person making the statement. In this case my opinion on the starving. When applied to ethics, subjectivism is the view that statements about a person's character or their actions are not reports of objective qualities inherent in those things. Instead we are either reporting our own inner feelings and attitudes (by speech) or we are merely expressing our feelings (body language, tone of voice). Ethical judgments, such as "We should all feed the starving," then, are mixtures of both descriptive (cognitive) and accomplishment-oriented (noncognitive) components. Accomplishment-oriented or noncognitivism is the view that moral statements are neither true nor false statements about the world. They are, instead, expressions of feelings or emotions we possess at the time the statement is made. The key to noncognitivism is distinguishing between two types of statements: propositional statements, and nonpropositional statements. Propositional statements are either true or false statements about the world, such as the following: The dog is brown The truck is on fire To test for whether the statement "the door is brown" is propositional, we need only to ask, "Is it true or false that 'the door is brown?'" Since this question is intelligible, then the statement, "the door is brown" is propositional. Nonpropositional sentences, are statements which are not propositional. Examples of these are, What time is it? Oh, my aching head! Although we understand what is being said by each of these statements, they are neither true nor false statements about the world. Moral statements are in the same boat even though they seem to prepositional statements they are actually “nonpropositional” statements which are disguised as propositions. This view is called noncognitivism since it contends that the truth value of moral statements cannot be known or proven. To make a moral statement ...
