evaluativism

Definitions

The belief that certain disagreements (even about facts) ultimately stem from differing values, and therefore cannot be resolved as factual disagreements.

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Examples

“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'.”

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