 Let’s begin with the question of whether Hutcheson is a non-cognitivist. Now, of course, much depends on what one means by this. But for the purpose of fixing our discussion, treat non-cognitivism as a sematic thesis, according to which moral terms do not refer to specific properties or objects, but are rather the expression of a particular non-cognitive (such as conative, affective, and so on) attitude. And, indeed, there are some who read Hutcheson in just this way. Perhaps most famously, William Frankena writes: