Sentences with phrase «judgments of value»

Policymakers must do cost / benefit analysis, taking into account tradeoffs, such as balancing risks from climate change against those from poverty, and as Hans von Storch points out, «judgments of the value of costs versus benefits is [sic] a highly subjective, value - laden calculation.»

Space is forever and always endowed by judgments of value.

It is my deep conviction that one of the chief sources of difficulty in our time is the common, uncritical acceptance of the foundational dichotomy between judgments of fact and judgments of value, between so - called «objectivity» and «subjectivity.»

One of the chief sources of difficulty in our time is the common, uncritical acceptance of the dichotomy between judgments of fact and judgments of value, between so - called «objectivity» and «subjectivity.»

Thus judgments of value have a personal component, as do all judgments.

The Christian's decision about these two models of trade will hinge largely on judgments of the value and importance of maximum global economic growth.

Stated formally, we may put the question this way: On what grounds are we to base our judgments of value and thus our moral, social and political decision - making?

Science can not deal effectively with the appreciation of beauty, the enjoyment of personal relationships, judgments of value as to good and bad; its leaders nowadays are modest in their claims, unlike their ancestors in the last century and the early days of this one.

Judgments of value are always concrete and particular.

«One thing only do I know for certain,» he wrote in Civilization and Its Discontents, «and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness — that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with argument.»

Many choose work according to their judgment of its value to others and satisfaction to themselves rather than according to how well it pays.

This would not be true if we went only so far as the «objective» historian can go and stopped with a recognition of the distinctiveness of the Christian community and of the historical ground of that distinctiveness in Christ, without any judgment of value or truth.

(148) Whether ye publish a good deed or conceal it or cover evil with pardon, verily Allah doth blot out (sins) and hath power (in the judgment of values).

Purely formal evaluations of the meaning of an event or a person in the immediate historical sequence are of course necessary; but a judgment of value depends upon a point of view which the writer imports into the history and by which he measures the historica1 phenomena.

We believed that alternative fees and not hourly billing, combined with «skin in the game» (holdbacks or bonuses) and empowering clients to rewrite bills so the invoice reflected the client's judgment of the value we provided were the means to achieve those objectives.

a: one who expresses a reasoned opinion on any matter especially involving a judgment of its value, truth, righteousness, beauty, or technique

Not exact matches

When asked whether he would make different choices if he could start over, Bayard Winthrop, the CEO of apparel company American Giant, highlighted the value of his past errors in judgment.

Neuroscience has, in fact, established a connection between the part of the brain that makes value judgments and that which experiences negative emotion.

The other hallmark of millennials: They value transparency but will withdraw if they feel someone is passing judgment on them.

In particular, when you applaud the exercise of autonomous judgment or freedom by some individual, group, or company, ask whether you would still applaud it if the individual, group, or company had values different from your own.

Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

Management's determination of fair value is then based on the best information available in the circumstances and may incorporate management's own assumptions and involves a significant degree of judgment, taking into consideration a combination of internal and external factors, including the appropriate risk adjustments for non-performance and liquidity risks.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Vertical equity: A value judgment about whether the net tax burden on people at different levels of well - being is appropriate.

We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant judgments and estimates, including the fair value of certain forms of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value of acquired intangible assets, which involve projections of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives of the assets.

«At this time, the general judgment is that their volatile valuations, and inadequate investor and consumer protection, make them unsafe to rely on as a common means of payment, a stable store of value or a unit of account,» the report said.

«The use of the value - at - risk models which made no sense from my judgment because they cut off the tail» David Einhorn

The great victory of the Federal Reserve in the half - cycle since 2009 was not ending the global financial crisis; the crisis actually ended in March 2009 with the stroke of a pen that changed accounting rule FAS157 and eliminated mark - to - market accounting for banks (instantly removing the specter of widespread insolvencies by allowing «significant judgment» in valuing distressed assets).

The sale and filing are intended to preserve the value of GMG's pioneering digital news business, safeguard the jobs of journalists and other staff, and allow GMG to fund the appeal against the $ 130 million judgment in the Hulk Hogan case against the company in a Florida state court.

While judicial review still occurs in many of the Fed's regulatory determinations, in places where value judgments are of the most consequence, the Fed's lawyer is the first and last word on what the law allows or forbids.

Paul Samuelson argued in a 1983 paper Foundations of Economic Analysis published by Harvard University that giving equilibrium markets what he described as a «normative meaning» or a value judgment was a misstep.

Funds that are actively managed could experience losses if the investment managers» judgment about markets or interest rates, or the attractiveness, relative values, liquidity or potential appreciation of particular investments prove to be incorrect.

The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.

«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....

It is a personal value judgment on a set of fact.

You can even make judgments about the value of the religious ideas you were taught or that you possess.

It appears that he's trying to sift history and take a more «nuanced» view of how history formed Christianity... I wasn't really getting a value judgment from him on the right or wrong, just that it's a mixed bag, like all history is.

Furthermore, our own value judgments were somewhat different from those of Nordhaus and Tobin.

In any event, it was all fairly conventional, merrily venomous talk - radio ranting, and I would probably have forgotten it a moment afterward if, at the end, the woman speaker had not opined that this «Occupy business» was all a part of the decay of the «traditional Christian values that built this nation» — a judgment to which the other two assented vigorously.

Their introspection may bring new value judgments of life and love and meaning.

He may never read the Bible, but the value judgments of the Bible, and especially the gospel, have become in large measure his own standards, even though he gives them little conscious attention.

Even without a carefully articulated theory of value, we can make rough and realistic judgments that the subjectivity of the sea mammals is greater than that of fish, and that the subjectivity of a chimpanzee is greater than that of a chicken.

JB: When you make a value judgment don't you immediately step yourself outside of this evolutionary process and say that the reason this is good is that it's good.

If we accept them, we must look to Jesus for our ultimate standards of judgment and at the same time keep on estimating relative values and probable consequences within the common life.

Thus in either case the judgment is pronounced upon man not from the human standpoint, as if man» s value were somehow immanent and securely possessed by him, but from without — according to Jesus, of course, God is the only Judge.

The champions of atheist memetics often smuggle in a covert value judgment about «good» and «bad» memes into their world view, without ever justifying where this cosmic meta - value is grounded.

Obviously judgments of moral value will differ greatly, depending upon the training and basic characteristics of different persons.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

From this point, judgments can be made regarding the adequacy of the values that are embodied in the order.