Abstract
According to cognitivism, moral sentences like “Stealing is wrong” or “She is a typical good person” function to convey facts about the world, which means that they can be true or false in the same manner as ordinary fact‐stating sentences. Whether cognitivism is correct or not is considered to be one of the main issues in metaethics, since it has implications for a number of central issues in moral philosophy, such as the possibility of moral truths, the existence of moral properties, the objectivity of morality, the nature of moral disagreement, and the connection between moral language and attitudes. Cognitivism is primarily debated in analytic philosophy, although related issues are discussed by classical philosophers and philosophers within other traditions.