Because "fact" symbolizes objectivity and "value" suggests subjectivity, the relationship of value to fact is of fundamental importance in developing any theory of the objectivity of value and of value judgments.
(Note that defenders of this latter, "skeptical" view need not read Nietzsche as a global anti-realist — i.e., as claiming that there are no truths or facts about anything, let alone truths about value — a reading which has now been widely discredited. There is, on the skeptical view at issue here, a special problem about the objectivity of value).
Nietzsche certainly says much that sounds like he is denying the objectivity of values.
There are at least two accounts of the objectivity of values that can be plausibly attributed to Berlin.
However concerns have been raised over the objectivity of such value state attributions (Massimi op. cit., p. 318, fn. 11) and one might regard the associated 'empirically superfluous' properties as merely conceptual.
The experts were satisfied with the results; they validated the predicted dynamics of the variables, and some discussed the objectivity of the values.
First, objectivity: no judgments of value are entailed, whereas the genealogical method calls for decisions as to the correctness of readings or textual states.
Siôn Simon, the minister for creative industries, said the panel would oversee the assessment of bids against criteria of objectivity, value for money, innovation, public benefit, and adherence to official procurement policies.
A staunch defense of objectivity and value freedom may just expose our own narrow-mindedness.
The VNT, and the idea of scientific objectivity as value freedom, could then be saved for the case of individual scientific reasoning.
The traditional conception of objectivity and the value neutrality, or the freedom of science from non-epistemic (moral, social, or political) values often associated with such a conception of objectivity, come into question.
