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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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Word History and Origins
Origin of value judgment1
Example Sentences
There’s no value judgment here—it’s not a punishment, it’s a safety feature.
In the end, the Court made a value judgment that health inspections are sufficiently important that they should continue, but union organizing is not.
But to keep the economy running, each decision becomes a value judgment.
Only so can we satisfy the concrete value-judgment of the young matriculant in the great school of applied religion.
A value-judgment which is not also a judgment of existence is in the air; it is the baseless fabric of a vision.
Value as established, Dewey continues, must be taken into consideration in making a value judgment.
It is, as usual, the psychological characteristics of the value judgment that attract Dewey's attention.
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