ABSTRACT
At the end of Chapter 4, we saw that just as noncognitivists need to give us a special answer to the question, ‘if moral words aren’t about anything, then what kind of meaning do they have?’, they also need to give us a special answer to the question, ‘if moral thoughts aren’t about anything, then what kind of thoughts are they?’. It is to that second question that we turn in this chapter. Our main goal is to understand not only what kind of thoughts moral thoughts are, but to understand why they seem so much like nonmoral thoughts in so many respects.
