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value judgment
noun
- an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
value judgment
noun
- a subjective assessment based on one's own code of values or that of one's class
value judgment
- An assessment of a person, situation, or event. The term is often restricted to assessments that reveal the values of the person making the assessment rather than the objective realities of what is being assessed.
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Notes
We often make value judgments without realizing that we are doing so. For example, a teacher who describes a student as “the best I've ever taught — very polite and obedient” is making a value judgment about the qualities (politeness and obedience) that make a student good.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of value judgment1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
But to keep the economy running, each decision becomes a value judgment.
From The Daily Beast
Only so can we satisfy the concrete value-judgment of the young matriculant in the great school of applied religion.
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A value-judgment which is not also a judgment of existence is in the air; it is the baseless fabric of a vision.
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Value as established, Dewey continues, must be taken into consideration in making a value judgment.
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It is, as usual, the psychological characteristics of the value judgment that attract Dewey's attention.
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