Sentence examples for evaluative concept from inspiring English sources

Another is the assumption that authenticity is an evaluative concept, in the sense that 'authentic' implies 'good'good

It is an evaluative concept as much as justice and courage are, and it suffers from disputes over its meaning as much as they do.

Although other accounts of desire or pro-attitudes are possible, the circularity worry threatens generic FA theories of value because they cannot appeal to more specific attitudes that seem more amenable to characterization without reference to an evaluative concept.

The inherently evaluative concept of VERMIN captures the affective value behind Striking tigers and flies together, and is preferable to the affectively neutral domain of ANIMAL as the larger source domain in which tigers and flies are a part.

All emotions involve cognition, and all are influenced by moral values and evaluative concepts, many (if not all) of which are learned.

Such critics thus advocate notions of bounded rationality that are more sensitive to those limitations and make use of evaluative concepts that do not depend on the precise sorts of assessments that are involved in determinations of expected utility.

It is, officially, the view that evaluative concepts are concepts of appropriateness of sentimental responses.

Their reasons apply evaluative concepts of benevolence, righteousness, good government, and social order (zhi) that are independent of Heaven's intention.

Hence the issue at the core of buck-passing, about whether the highest-order evaluative concepts provide reasons, seems orthogonal to FA theory except in one respect.

As Stephen Stich asks, "Why should we care one whit whether the cognitive processes we use are sanctioned by [our] evaluative concepts?" (Stich, 1990: 92).

Importantly intermediate, in this respect, is the set of judgments involving so-called "thick" evaluative concepts — for example, that someone is callous, boorish, just, or brave.