David Andrews wrote: >Whatever the influence of G.E. Moore on twentieth century philosophy or >Keynes, it is worse than a mischaracterization of Moore to say, as does John >Medaille, that > >"Moore's "Principia Ethica" (1903) . . . promulgated the doctrine known as >"emotivism," that is, the idea that any ethical statement could only be the >expression of a personal preference." > >"Emotivism" does not make even a hint of an appearance in _Principia >Ethica_. Moore's argument was quite to the contrary. He believed that >goodness was an objective property. There is no meaningful difference between Moore's intuitionism and Ayer's emotivism. For both the good is indefinable. John C. Medaille