Meaning of boo-hooray | Babel Free

Definitions

Having no meaning beyond the emotional reaction of the speaker; emotivist.

Examples

“When I first came to the House of Commons I did not understand⟳ the legal use⟳ of the term " reasonable," which seemed to me a value judgment and to fall⟳ into the " boo-hooray " school.”

“It need⟳ not be a non-operational, merely 'boo-hooray' expression.”

“It hardly needs to be said that the results of this method are frustratingly dissatisfying, for the words tend⟳ to occur⟳ in speech and writing as mere boo-hooray words.”

“Old fashioned 'boo-hooray' forms of expressivism tell⟳ us nothing about utterances in which normative predicates are used in unasserted contexts, such as 'If lying is wrong then getting little brother to lie⟳ is wrong'.”

“For rather than being 'thinly' emotive in the simplistic 'stimulus-respopnse' sense⟳ that would complement the 'thinly' emotive or 'boo-hooray' interpretation of the original ET which its critics based their criticisms upon, this theory...”

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