There's a confusion here of moral and analytic language.

But this view is also an implicit criticism of the Clinton administration, which has been known for using grand moral language without making solid commitments.

To the Editor: One of the Bush administration's most ominous achievements has been its ability to capture and eviscerate moral language.

Expressivism in meta-ethics is a theory about the meaning of moral language.

Because the function of moral language is non-descriptive, moral sentences do not have any truth conditions.

The expressivist thus cannot account for the meaning of moral language in this kind of unasserted context.

Searching for "a common moral language," they found themselves talking just-war theory, more or less without knowing it.

We also have to give the distinctive moral language of civil society a more permanent place in our public conversation.

Weber notes that this is not a philosophy of mere greed, but a statement laden with moral language.

"I haven't heard a moral language or a faith language from him in relation to this momentous decision."