metaethical

See also: meta-ethical

English

Alternative forms

• meta-ethical

Etymology

From meta- +‎ ethical.

Adjective

metaethical (not comparable)

1. (ethics) Of or pertaining to metaethics.
   • 2020, Mark Balaguer, “Moral Folkism and the Deflation of (Lots of) Normative and Metaethics”, in José L. Falguera, Concha Martínez-Vidal, editor, Abstract Objects: For and Against, page 297:

     In particular, I argue that (i) moral folkism leads us to the deflationary conclusion that many of the normative and metaethical questions that philosophers discuss are settled by empirical facts about what ordinary folk happen to mean by their words — and so they're not settled by mind-independent facts about reality.

Derived terms

• metaethically