Evaluativism

Quick meaning: Evaluativism is a noun meaning (epistemology) The belief that certain disagreements (even about facts) ultimately stem from differing values, and therefore cannot be resolved as factual disagreements.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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'.

Antonyms for evaluativism

Common opposites include factualism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include evaluativist, problematicism, permissivism, evidentialist, reflectivism, expressivist.

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