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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