They suggest that the mark of cognitivist theory is the assumption that mental states serve a representational function, rather than emotivist theory that assumes mental states serve primarily nonrepresentational functions (1993, p.

20) While this might sound suspiciously like a "pooling of ignorances" approach to education that could easily devolve into the unaccountable and emotivist melee that MacIntyre and Hauerwas reject, perhaps it is time to refigure such conversations as enacting a generative risk for the nonviolent introduction of newness into the activity of education.

571) These courts' stress on therapy makes an accused's emotivist expression--revealing the most intimate details of his family background, sexual relations, and emotional life--central to his rehabilitation.