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    It is not the case that The sentence 'bull-fighting is bad' is not in the optative mood

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    • 1.Sentences in non-indicative moods can be embedded in truth-apt contexts without acquiring genuine truth conditions (Frege-Geach problem).
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    • 2.The apparent truth-aptness of 'bull-fighting is bad' may reflect its grammatical surface form rather than its genuine logical or illocutionary role.
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    • 3.Expressivists like Blackburn and Gibbard argue that expressions of attitude systematically mimic indicative mood without thereby becoming truth-apt in any robust sense.
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    • 1.The coherence of treating a sentence as truth-apt is insufficient to establish its indicative mood, since quasi-realist frameworks show how non-cognitive states can generate truth-apt-seeming discourse.
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    • 2.Russell's own emotivist commitments, as noted by Ayer and Stevenson, entail that moral sentences primarily express attitudes, making the indicative/optative distinction a matter of convention rather than semantic depth.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Russell was inclined to feel that 'bull-fighting is bad' is true
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    • 2.This inclination is not an incoherent thing to feel or think
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    • 3.Sentences genuinely in the optative mood, such as 'Oh to be in England, now that April's here!', cannot coherently be felt or thought to be true or false
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