Sentence examples for evaluative facts from inspiring English sources

To say that the evaluative facts supervene on the natural ones is to say that in any two worlds in which all the natural facts are alike, all the evaluative facts are also alike.

A distinctive kind of sentimentalist moral metaphysics is endorsed by cognitivist sentimentalists who believe that moral and evaluative facts are metaphysically determined by some sort of sentimental responses.

The most obvious consequence of these theories, is therefore that evaluative facts must not then be explained in terms of deontic facts.

It is an appealing thought that moral (and other evaluative) facts and properties are not just brutely out there independently of human thought and sensibility.

If normative and evaluative claims do not represent genuine cognitive achievements, then their legitimacy does not depend on our postulating a realm of normative or evaluative facts to which those claims must be capable of corresponding.

But they are committed to claims about value, because they appeal to evaluative facts, in order to explain what is right and wrong, and what we ought to do — deontic facts.

Consequently, there is no commitment to a distinct kind of evaluative fact.

But it is both plausible and non-trivial to claim that A is better than B, in the relevant sense, if and only if the balance of reasons favours A over B, where the reasons are distinct from that evaluative fact.

According to the informed desire account, the best life is the one I would desire if I were fully informed about all the (non-evaluative) facts.

This view was abandoned in the Practice Statement [1966] 3 All ER 77. 4 It should be noted that these 'facts' are not restricted to what are sometimes described as 'descriptive' or 'non-evaluative' facts: they may include a legal status, such as being a legatee or beneficiary of a trust; or an evaluative assessment, such as someone acting dishonestly, or without due care, or unconscionably.

This is because it remains possible that evaluative epistemic facts supervene on naturalistic ones.