metaethical

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adjective

Of or pertaining to metaethics.

OriginEnglish ethical ← Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-) →
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Meanings

adjectivemetaethical (not comparable)

alternative meta-ethical

  1. not comparableethicsOf or pertaining to metaethics.
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    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.

    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

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekμετᾰ́ (metắ)
  2. Ancient Greekμετᾰ- (metă-)
  3. Englishmeta-
  4. Englishethical
  5. Englishmetaethical

From meta- + ethical.

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APA

metaethical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metaethical

MLA

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Chicago

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