MF Emotivism essay

From: Horse (horse@wasted.demon.nl)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 01:00:51 BST


Hi All

On 5 Jul 2000, at 14:16, John Bradshaw wrote:

> Hi everybody. I know where Horse's essay comes from and feel it is only
> right to credit sources used properly. My lecturer (Mr Struan Hellier) put
> me onto this site a while ago as I asked him about ZAMM. The essay about
> Emotivism which Horse recently sent was actually written by him and he tells
> me it is a transcript of a 45 minute question he answered in his final exams
> as an undergraduate. The only changes are where it says 'post' in Horse's
> version, in the original it says 'essay' and 'Discuss' is missing from the
> title. I know as it is sitting in my Ethics file and I had to wite a
> critique on it. Just thought I would clear that up. Thanks, JB.

Whoa there, hold on John. If you check out out my other post of 4/7/00 you'll see:

On 5 Jul 2000, at 0:36, Horse wrote:

> As there seems to be an amount of confusion over what is meant by 'Emotivism', I've also
> supplied an excellent essay/critique on Emotivism in a seperate post. I can't for the life of
> me remember where it came from or who wrote it.

There was no attempt by me pass this off as my own, which is what you seem to be
implying, correct me if I'm wrong - I had no recollection of where it came from or who had
written it. If you say it is Struans then I'll accept that, although I have just checked through
all my private correspondence with Struan and all of his posts to the mailing lists and I can
find no trace of it in any of these. It is reminiscent of his style though so I am quite happy to

give Struan due credit for it.
It was provided to the list as an excellent introduction to and critique of Emotivism, being
relevant to the discussion currently under way this month.
Anyway, thanks for supplying the source of the essay - and could you ask Struan to let me
know where I might have acquired this essay - off list preferably.

Horse

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