evaluativism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The belief that certain disagreements (even about facts) ultimately stem from differing values, and therefore cannot be resolved as factual disagreements.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Most who have argued for evaluativism have been interested in establishing skepticism, and have assumed that evaluativism implied skepticism."
- "[E]valutivism makes plain that any attempt to justify a rule (ultimately by a rule-circular argument) will be an attempt for rules we value and will depend on rules we value (our basic inferential rules)."
- "There is prima facie something deeply unappealing about evaluativism: our intuitions rebel at the suggestion that reasonableness is 'not a factual property' and that '[i]n calling a rule reasonable we are evaluating it, and all that makes sense to ask about is what we value'."
Etymology
From evaluative + -ism.