Outlines of a Formal Theory of Value, I
- 1 April 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 22 (2) , 140-160
- https://doi.org/10.1086/287412
Abstract
Contemporary philosophers interested in value theory appear to be largely concerned with questions of the following sort:What is value?What is the meaning of the word ‘good’?Does the attribution of value to an object have a cognitive, or merely an emotive, significance?The first question is metaphysical; to ask it is analogous to asking in physics:What is matter?What is electricity?The others are generally treated as semantical questions; to ask them is analogous to asking in statistics:What is the meaning of the word ‘probable’?Does an attribution of probability express an objective fact, or merely a subjective attitude?Keywords
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