Moral expressivists think that moral thoughts and sentences don’t represent or describe the world, at least not in any interesting sense. Global expressivists think that no thoughts or sentences represent the world; local expressivists think that some do and others don’t. Huw Price has influentially argued that local expressivism collapses into global expressivism, due both to the effects of minimalist theories of representation and similar concepts, and to an unappreciated consequence of the success of specific expressivist theories like moral expressivism. In this paper I argue that Price’s arguments don’t succeed. While they can be fixed, doing so makes them miss their intended target. Local expressivists should therefore not be worried by Price’s arguments.

道德表现主义者认为，道德思想和句子并不代表或描述世界，至少不是在任何有趣的意义上。全球表现主义者认为没有思想或句子代表世界；当地的表现主义者认为有些人会，有些人不会。Huw Price 颇具影响力地指出，由于极简主义的表现理论和类似概念的影响，以及道德表现主义等特定表现主义理论的成功所带来的未被重视的后果，局部表现主义会崩溃为全球表现主义。在本文中，我认为普莱斯的论点是不成功的。虽然可以修复它们，但这样做会使它们错过预期的目标。因此，地方表现主义者不应该为普莱斯的论点担心。