value judgments
Ethics-based opinions formed
Value judgments are assessments based on personal standards of right and wrong, good and bad, rather than objective facts: Whether that's progress or decline is a value judgment.
The term often implies subjectivity—distinguishing opinion from measurable reality.
Scientists aim to separate empirical findings from value judgments, though critics note the line isn't always clear.
- attitudeSettled way of thinking
- prescriptiveDictating correct usage
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- emotionComplex psychological state
- subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
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- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- valueshonesty, worth, fairness, morals, good
- ethicsmorality, deontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism
- metaethicsnon-cognitivism, cognitivism, moral relativism, prescriptivism, moral truth
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