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What is metaethics?

What is metaethics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ethics) The descriptive study of philosophical ethical systems, especially with regard to their key concepts, techniques of reasoning and analysis, and linguistic conventions.
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Nonetheless, although deontological theories can be agnostic regarding metaethics, some metaethical accounts seem less hospitable than others to deontology.
These daily moral decisions serve as the source for both normative ethics and metaethics.
To a somewhat lesser extent he examines issue of metaethics, including intuitionism, emotivism, and prescriptivism.
There is no adequate proof of the truth of metaethics.
The first difficulty is that constructivism comes in several varieties, each of which claims a different niche within metaethics, and some claim no space at all.
The choice of metaethics, however, is noncognitive.

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