of this; do so as well" is a standard-setting statement, yet most moral statements are actually standard-using ones, so Stevenson's explanation of ethical sentences is unsatisfactory. Colin Wilks has responded that Stevenson's distinction between first-order and second-order statements resolves this problem: a person who says "Sharing is good" may be making a second-order statement like "Sharing is approved of by the community", the sort of standard-using statement Urmson says is most typical of moral discourse. At the same time, their statement can be reduced to a first-order, standard-setting sentence: "I approve of whatever is approved of by the community; do so as well." See also Analytic philosophy Logical positivism Moral realism Prescriptivism (philosophy) Verification principle Notes References External links Emotivism, Intuitionism and Prescriptivism A clear explanation Emotivism definition in philosophyprofessor.com Meta-ethics Emotion Analytic philosophy de:Metaethik#Emotivismus