 Normative realism is a kind of cognitivism. It says that just as the assertion that Dr. Pepper is sweet expresses a belief, so the assertion that it would be bad to drink another Dr. Pepper expresses a belief – both express a cognitive state of mind that takes a proposition as its object and that represents the world as being one way or another. Quasi-realism would allow us to call conative states of mind, such as an aversion to drinking another Dr. Pepper, “beliefs”, but it holds that beliefs of this kind are conative states that are different in their intrinsic nature from ordinary beliefs. Cognitivists, including normative naturalists and non-naturalists, hold that normative judgments are ordinary beliefs, cognitive states that represent worldly states of affairs that are their truth conditions.