evaluativism
nounEtymology
From evaluative + -ism.
Definitions
The belief that certain disagreements (even about facts) ultimately stem from differing…
The belief that certain disagreements (even about facts) ultimately stem from differing values, and therefore cannot be resolved as factual disagreements.
- 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).
The neighborhood
- antonymfactualism
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