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Explain A J Ayer's verification principle as an
A virtue ca
objection to moral realism. possessed
contrast, a d
Ayer’s verification principle states that statements are only
meaningful if they are either analytic or empirically verifiable (in A dispositio
practice or in principle). particular w
constant
When applied to moral judgements, it is clear that moral statements wea
are not analytically true. Furthermore, if objective mind-
independent moral properties do indeed exist, there appears to be no Virtues
way of verifying them via empirical means. characteris
A virtue can
Therefore, moral statements must be meaningless since they are for the right
neither analytically true nor empirically verifiable. and so
This is an issue for moral realism because the existence of Dispositio
objective, mind-independent, moral properties implies that moral chara
utterance ought to be truth-apt if they are able to pick out such Affective r
properties in the world. So, if Ayer’s reasoning is correct, moral with no
realism is likely to be false. Intellectu
A virtue is
not a mer
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