Richard began meditating on those two scenes. He had not been convinced by Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic before the war, but his loss of faith in objective moral reality now led him to accept its basic picture of a value-free world.[25] What he could not accept, however, was Ayer’s claim that moral language is nothing more than the expression of emotion, and that his disagreement with the Japanese commander was a simple clash of feelings. He wanted to show that even though there was no value in the world, moral disagreement could be approached rationally and, where both parties were
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