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- adjective Of or relating to
values orvaluation ; not factual or descriptive.
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Examples
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However, when seen more closely, the table is also something more - it is not only a material thing in space, but in addition is furnished with definite valuative predicates: beautifully made, useful - it is a piece of equipment, furniture, a part of the room's decor.
enowning enowning 2008
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However, when seen more closely, the table is also something more - it is not only a material thing in space, but in addition is furnished with definite valuative predicates: beautifully made, useful - it is a piece of equipment, furniture, a part of the room's decor.
Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008
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Noting that "it is not easy to disentangle the valuative work of commemoration from the rigor of a reading," she elaborates Paul de Man's severe emphasis on aesthetic monumentalization into a rich reading of the kind of biographical material — memoirs, anecdotes, letters — that is so often marshalled as an antidote to textual complexity.
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Yet as de Man repeatedly demonstrates, it is not easy to disengage the valuative work of commemoration from the rigor of a reading.
Shelley's Pod People 2005
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(Is it appropriate to ascribe authority or expertise in valuative domains like ethics and aesthetics?)
Epistemological Problems of Testimony Adler, Jonathan 2006
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Public policy has thus been shaped by exaggerated claims and by unrealistic valuative standards.
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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Public policy has thus been shaped by exaggerated claims and by unrealistic valuative standards.
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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