The fact–value distinction is a fundamental epistemological distinction described between: Statements of fact (positive or descriptive statements), which...

fallacy a fallacy. The is–ought problem is closely related to the fact–value distinction in epistemology. Though the terms are often used interchangeably...

positive/normative distinction is rooted in the fact-value distinction in philosophy. A positive statement is an assertion about facts of the world, while...

is–ought distinction. Those who insist there is a logical gulf between facts and values, such that it is fallacious to attempt to derive values (e.g., "it...

intrinsic value are the distinction between what is a means to an end and what is as an end in itself. Things are deemed to have instrumental value (or extrinsic...

naturalists hold. Ethical naturalism does, however, reject the fact-value distinction: it suggests that inquiry into the natural world can increase our...

brief Demarcation problem Epistemology Fact § In law Fact–value distinction Falsifiability Findings of facts Is–ought problem Judgment (law) Lord Advocate's...

hominem Aesthetic judgment Bias Critic Cultural relativism Defamation Fact–value distinction False accusation Immanent evaluation Moral relativism Normativity...

inferring factual conclusions from evaluative premises in violation of fact–value distinction (e.g.: inferring is from ought). Moralistic fallacy is the inverse...

actions in terms of the fact-value distinction. He scoffed at those, like the professors from whom he learned the fact-value distinction, who still lived their...

Weber, Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences , 1949 Fact-value distinction Empirical research Epistemology Ethnology Ethnocentrism Scientific...

nihilism Existentialism Irrationality Is–ought problem Kafkaesque Fact–value distinction Lottery of birth Meaning of life Nihilism Non sequitur (literary...

possibility to waive, transfer or sell their rights. Ethical subjectivism Fact–value distinction Is–ought problem Meta-ethics Moral realism Normative ethics Kaushik...

Southwest school emphasized issues of culture and value theory (notably the fact–value distinction). A third group, mainly represented by Leonard Nelson...

for talk of values and right and wrong. Mackie is sceptical about solving the dilemma posed by the distinction between values and facts. The dominance...

Moralistic fallacy Evidence-based medicine Evolution of morality Fact–value distinction Is-Ought Problem Metaethics Philosophical naturalism Norm (philosophy)...

that science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry, fact vs. values, so there is a difference between the "nets" over which they have "a...

Anthropic principle Axiology Deontic logic Ethical subjectivism Fact–value distinction Is–ought problem Meta-rights Moral realism Normative ethics Principia...

imperative Communicative rationality Fact–value distinction Instrumental and intrinsic value Instrumental and value-rational action Instrumental convergence...

turns away from itself as there is nothing of value to be found in the world. This moving away of all value in the world is characteristic of the nihilist...

Instrumental and value rationality Instrumentalism Intrinsic value (ethics) Scientific realism Veblenian dichotomy Fact–value distinction Weber, Max (1978)...

type of policy advocacy. Descriptive science Environmental policy Fact–value distinction Is–ought problem Normative economics Normative ethics Policy advocacy...

Strauss, modern social science is flawed because it assumes the fact–value distinction, a concept which Strauss found dubious. He traced its roots in Enlightenment...

employ many words in explaining this distinction", which commentators have generally taken to mean the distinction between feeling and thinking. Controversially...

The analytic–synthetic distinction is a semantic distinction used primarily in philosophy to distinguish between propositions (in particular, statements...

or value. John Dewey (American pragmatist) Richard Rorty Instrumental and value rationality Instrumental and intrinsic value Natural kind Fact–value distinction...

republicans. Facticity (German: Faktizität) – Philosophical concept with multiple meanings Fact-value distinction – Philosophical distinction between 'is'...

assign themselves greater value in the process. In Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (La Distinction, 1979), Pierre Bourdieu described...

reference of a sentence is its truth value, whereas its sense is the thought that it expresses. Frege justified the distinction in a number of ways. Sense is...

Bill (Nigeria) Network Enforcement Act (Germany) Fact–value distinction – Philosophical distinction between 'is' and 'should' Is–ought problem – Philosophical...