Hierarchical organizations can structure factual and value decision premises so that the range of action becomes so narrow that only one alternative remains: the rational choice.
Factual and value judgments might be used for different rhetorical purposes in our explanations and research, but that is different from saying that one kind of judgment has empirical content and the other does not" (Clough 2012, 423).
Human language is both factual and value-laden.
"Our results show that providing members of the public with weekly modules of factual and value-free knowledge results in increased acceptance of GM foods," the researchers wrote.
Our results suggest that intuition based decision-making and factual knowledge is valued differently by each of the parties with a different emphasis on "the outcome".
I have learned that off-the-shelf publication software is limited, and that we may need partly technical solutions to improved public discussions which mix factual evidence and value-driven controversy.
A four-way repeated-measures ANOVA was conducted with the clause types (factual, counterfactual), truth values (true, false), and polarities (affirmative, negative) as within-participants factors together with each group (college students, junior high teenagers, elementary children) as a between-participants factor.
These are factual questions, not values judgments.
The Beilstein database covers 10 million compounds and organic reactions and contains 500 million experimental chemical property values (factual information).
Over the years, Mr. Castellanos has defended the value of attack advertising, once saying, "The truest spots, most factual spots, are the negative and comparative".
