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Definition:
Subjectivism is a meta-ethical theory which argues that moral claims are relative to the
individual (subject) making them. A cognitivist approach to subjectivism argues that
moral claims are based upon the person's own set of moral standards. As such, it is
possible for a moral claim to be true or false, at least in the context of those
standards.
In a noncognitivist approach to subjectivism, it is argued that moral claims simply reflect human emotional states. Thus, the claim isn't even a proposition which can be true or false and is more similar to a cry of pain.
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