Sentence examples for moral expression from inspiring English sources

Over the years, Richter's careful, equivocal restraint has become a point of principle, as well as a deep visual trait: the medium as moral expression.

It is the moral expression of a market failure.Unfortunately, it is also an invitation to bureaucracy to do its worst.

The only relevant political, legal, and moral expression of the wishes of the people of Serbia in favour of "military neutrality" so far has been the adoption of a declaration in the National Assembly on 26 December 2007 (this declaration is regularly supported by public opinion surveys).

In embedded contexts, this secondary component becomes the semantic value of the embedded moral expression.

If there is no proposition expressed in normal predicative uses of moral expressions we eliminate one candidate for a constant element that generates relations of implication with other expressions embedding the same form of words.

The principal varieties of non-cognitivism can be distinguished by focusing on the positive claims they make in explicating the semantic function of moral expressions and the nature of the mental states typically expressed by those who utter them in simple predicative statements.

One sort of hybrid theorist incorporates this idea into the semantics of moral expressions.

Speakers to whom such questions seemed open were tacitly aware of this difference in function and hence not in a position to equate moral expressions with descriptive expressions.

Perhaps moral expressions are analytically equivalent to naturalistic expressions, but these analyticities are themselves not obvious even to competent speakers (Lewis 1989, 129).

Thus non-cognitivists could argue that moral expressions used in such open questions did not function to represent anything or to predicate any property and as such were not equivalent to any descriptive or referring expressions.

These include logics for belief, for tense and other temporal expressions, for the deontic (moral) expressions such as 'it is obligatory that' and 'it is permitted that', and many others.