Meaning of positor | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“Since Candrakīrti’s Supplement Commentary says “objects of perceivers of falsities are concealer-truths,” an object found by a conventional valid cognizer is also stated as a positor of concealer-truth.”

“This, indeed, is the “most extreme” nihilism; it “places the value of things precisely in that no reality corresponds or corresponded to them, that, instead, they are only a symptom of force⟳ on the part of the positors of value [Wert-Ansetzer], a simplification for the sake of life [zum Zweck des Lebens].””

“Sartre believes that human beings have⟳ radical freedom, the liberty to construct ourselves individually and to define⟳ collectively what it means to be human, apart from any divine being or God who might determine⟳ human nature. For Sartre, this radical freedom reveals our anguish: since we are the positors of meanings and values yet without any ultimate ontological or metaphysical grounds for justification, we find⟳ ourselves in anguish, weighed down by angst over our moral choices and their lack of resolution.”

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