An expressivist, for example, may hold that we arrive at our moral judgments, which express our attitudes or commitments to certain norms, largely through autonomous moral reflection, i.e., with significant independence from specific evolutionary influences.
"We don't express our attitudes toward Jewish or Israeli people because we're so afraid of being called anti-Semitic," Biel said.
In The Language of Morals (1952), Richard M. Hare (born 1919) agreed that in making moral judgments we are not primarily seeking to describe anything, but claimed that neither are we simply expressing our attitudes; instead, he suggested that moral judgments prescribe that is, are a form of imperative sentence (see prescriptivism).
However, such statements, like Lewis' other "expressive" statements, may be true or false (see previous section), and simply convey the occurrence of given qualia in experience and no more, instead of indicating the existence of objects, situations, or persons, and expressing our attitudes to them.
The take-home message is that the Bayesian method allows us to express our epistemic attitudes to statistical hypotheses in terms of a probability assignment, and that the data impact on this epistemic attitude in a regulated fashion.
It not applies only to attitudes that express our rational agency; but many of our attitudes are insensitive to reasons.[12] Beliefs that are deeply entrenched (such as superstitions) or comforting (as in wishful thinking) sometimes persevere in the face of counter-evidence.
Perhaps, though, a more political message should have been added, to express our regret at the attitude of the American Government regarding two important aspects related to world peace and terrorism.
The central idea is that we can see our thought and talk as fundamentally a matter of our expressing our affective attitudes or commitments which gives rise to legitimate thought and talk about corresponding properties, beliefs, truths and facts.
Bayesian statistics allows us to express how our epistemic attitudes towards a statistical hypothesis, be it logical, decision-theoretic, or doxastic, changes under the impact of data.
Our values express adjudicative attitudes based on feeling.
