Evaluativism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The belief that certain disagreements (even about facts) ultimately stem from differing values, and therefore cannot be resolved as factual disagreements. uncountable

    "Most who have argued for evaluativism have been interested in establishing skepticism, and have assumed that evaluativism implied skepticism."

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"Most who have argued for evaluativism have been interested in establishing skepticism, and have assumed that evaluativism implied skepticism."

Etymology

From evaluative + -ism.

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