expressivist

expressivist
Pertaining to or advocating expressivism, the doctrine that the primary function of moral sentences and sensation sentences (like "I am in pain") is to express an evaluative attitude, rather than stating a fact
See Also: expressivistic
2. noun
An advocate of expressivism

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