Intuitionism (Moore), He argued that “good” is indefinable., He believed moral truths are self-evident and known through intuition., He said defining “good” is a mistake called the naturalistic fallacy., He compared “good” to a colour like yellow, which cannot be defined., He believed moral statements can be true or false., His work supports the idea that morality is objective but not based on science., Emotivism (Ayer), He argued that moral statements are not factual., He believed ethical language expresses emotion, not truth., He said “murder is wrong” means “boo to murder”., He linked his ideas to logical positivism., He believed moral disagreements are disagreements in attitude, not fact., He argued moral statements are neither true nor false., Error Theory / Critique (Mackie), He argued that objective moral values do not exist., He believed humans invent morality, rather than discover it., He said people wrongly assume morality is objective., His view is known as error theory., He challenged the idea that moral facts are real., He argued moral beliefs come from social and psychological factors.

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