For example, no rigid ranking of law schools can quantify
the subjective value of education available at each school; the quality of teaching can not be quantified on a national basis.
And the report discusses
the subjective value of nature in terms of the «amenity» seemingly provided by green space.
Manage money, and write an entertaining quarterly / monthly missive that adds to
the subjective value of having money managed by you.
As important as financial readiness and work ethic are in choosing your franchisees,
the subjective value of how well the candidate fits into your organization's values and culture may be even more important.
Not exact matches
It was called «Exuberance is Rational,» and described the lonely, heretical work
of proving that
value is
subjective, and consumers are emotional and unpredictable about how they perceive it.
and considered a number
of other objective and
subjective factors to determine the best estimate
of the fair
value of our common stock, including; issuances
of preferred stock and the rights, preferences and privileges
of our preferred stock relative to those
of our common stock; and the likelihood
of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or sale given prevailing market conditions.
The fair
value of the common stock underlying the stock - based awards is determined by our board
of directors, which considered numerous objective and
subjective factors to determine the fair
value of common stock at each grant date.
Because there is no public market for our common stock, our board
of directors determined the common stock fair
value at the stock option grant date by considering several objective and
subjective factors, including the price paid by investors for our preferred stock, our actual and forecasted operating and financial performance, market conditions and performance
of comparable publicly traded companies, developments and milestones in our company, the rights and preferences
of our common and preferred stock, the likelihood
of achieving a liquidity event, and transactions involving our preferred stock.
Value is so subjective that you'll never be in control of it, but you can influence and encourage value gr
Value is so
subjective that you'll never be in control
of it, but you can influence and encourage
value gr
value growth.
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.
As far as which is the absolute «best» citizenship by investment option, that will depend on a number
of subjective factors: one's budget, how you
value the specific investment deal offered by the second citizenship country (donation versus the potential for an investment return) and comfort in the country.
Indeed, the term responsible investing is an evolving term and is quite
subjective and dependent on the
values and outlook
of the investor.
Shiller is right that perfect equilibrium microeconomics can not explain asset bubbles, but bubbles might be explained by combining three other classic postulates: the law
of demand, opportunity costs and the
subjective theory
of value.
Anyone's calculation intrinsic
value necessarily comes up with a highly
subjective figure that will change both as estimates
of future cash flows are revised and as interest rates move.
I work for an app developer company — so I may be
subjective in that sense — but for me eCommerce apps add a lot
of value on top
of the standard offering
of the platforms.
An SCI is a range
of values that communicates a
subjective estimate
of an unknown quantity at a particular confidence level (expressed as a percentage).
Of course they are not interested in a
subjective answer but only in getting the responder to commit to a
value that they can then attempt to claim as objective.
Of course truthfollower01 is not interested in a
subjective answer but only in getting the responder to commit to a
value that he can then attempt to claim as objective.
Vagueness can be avoided,
of course, if we go to the logical extreme
of such a move, which would lie in attributing to the consequent nature all valuations, reserving to the primordial nature only the constitution
of metaphysical possibility and the
subjective aim toward
value realization in general.
Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no more arbitrary than those
of the constitution
of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine
subjective aim toward the maximum of value intensity, together with the property of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature) of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal ev
subjective aim toward the maximum
of value intensity, together with the property
of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature)
of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal ev
Subjective Unity and
Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal ev
Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence
of the growing series
of divine temporal evaluations.
Indeed it can not differ from it, given that God's
subjective aim is supreme and that the primordial nature constitutes the optimal adjustment
of possibilities for
value.
I am less clear on the sense
of the last sentence but one, but I believe that Whitehead means that the quantitative emotional intensity
of the entity's satisfaction must
of course be related to the intensity
of its drive toward
value as furnished by its
subjective aim.
They have a
subjective element in that it does not make sense to speak
of values apart from
valuing subjects.
In the project
of self - creation throughout his life, man must strive to bring these
values into aesthetic harmony aiming at intensity
of feeling both in its
subjective immediacy and in the relevant occasions beyond itself to achieve objective immortality.63 And man realizes that to achieve his individual destiny he must create civilizations which embody truth and beauty.
(i) it has the character «given» for it by the past; (ii) it has the
subjective character aimed at in its process
of concrescence; (iii) it has the superjective character, which is the pragmatic
value of its specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity.
Rolston realizes that nature does not disclose its
values to us apart from our
subjective interpretations
of it.
But because we focus on
subjective experience as the locus
of value, and because we believe that human experiences are the richest on this planet, we also affirm
of human beings a quite distinct and special status.
But to affirm the concreteness
of values is not to make them
subjective and relative to the appraiser.
Religious experience has an organic structure which can be analyzed in terms
of the physical and conceptual feelings correlative to the generality
of values perceived, and the
subjective forms appropriate to each feeling element.
Furthermore, the particular experiences interpreted as religious on the basis
of the categoreal feelings and
subjective forms considered in this essay will differ accordingly from those expounded on the basis
of an alternative
value judgment.
The combination
of communal and adumbrative
subjective forms in transmuted physical feelings provides the foundation
of the religious feeling
of «the
value of the objective world which is a community derivative from the interrelations
of its component individuals, and also necessary for the existence
of each
of these individuals» (JIM 59).
The presentness
of the I - Thou relation is also fatal to the attempt
of logical positivism to relegate ethics, religion, and poetry to
subjective emotion without real knowledge
value.
It is its own
value and meaning, and no other, which is affirmed, contrasted, deepened, and intensified in this trans - individual and even transpersonal widening
of experience, for throughout the transformation it contributes its particular
subjective pattern to the way that whole is being experienced.
Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories
of ethics, has no way
of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all
value ultimately on
subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because
of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment
of whether our actions will in fact produce the
values that we think they will.
This
subjective - objective confusion destroys the essence
of moral philosophy because it can not in fact establish any distinction between sheer objective description
of what takes place and the discovery
of the «normative,» that is,
of the
values which determine what man ought to do.
Since his interest lies in the intrinsic
value of each occasion as it might contribute to his own multiplicity, and not in the reduction
of that
value so that it might provide him with a novel decision, God in no way violates the
subjective unity
of the satisfaction he prehends.
The mark
of our time, writes Buber, is the denial that
values are anything other than the
subjective needs
of groups.
Dewey calls this
value «quality,» but by the term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper reality, in some aspect
of the world, often as that wholeness is presented in a work
of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus
of quality, the
subjective locus would be the emotional intuition
of the objective quality; this
subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment
of quality which provides the substance
of the derivative and propositional resolution
of the conflict between the individual and its environment.
The «subjectivists,» on the other hand, reduce all
value to the
subjective interest
of individuals or cultural groups.
Non-believers are definitely missing out when they assume that there aren't
subjective states
of being that have normative
value and are worth pursuing.
It is a commonplace
of modern science that facts are one thing and
values quite another, that we can rely on objective scientific knowledge, while
subjective metaphysical thinking (the logical positivists would say) is dubious and to be avoided whenever possible.
Never quite accepting a
value - free objective world nor sharply opposing it to a
value - laden
subjective world in the first place, American empirical theologians have no cause to be so disturbed that
subjective and contextual speculation becomes constitutive
of what is religious.
Rather, love involves some mysterious alloy
of objective appraisal and the lover's
subjective bestowal
of value.
They never really staked themselves on the possibility
of a truly pure and independent account
of anything anyway, so that to be told that their definitions and descriptions are
value - laden,
subjective, contextual, and speculative is not the problem it would be for a Continental dualist who accepts still a fact -
value distinction and the possibility
of purely factual,
value - free description.
Both what is inherited in a causal chain and what «endures» in a life history are eternal objects, either qualia (or
subjective forms in the language
of PR) or overarching
value structures (i.e., defining characteristics).
Their
value consists entirely in the
subjective enjoyment they produce, and that
value would be unaffected even if the
subjective enjoyment were totally at variance with the actual, objective state
of affairs.
Lamin Sanneh reviews a new work by Leslie Newbigin in which Newbigin claims the focus on the dichotomy between «knowledge»
of so - called objective facts and «belief» in so - called
subjective values is a dichotomy that is rationally indefensible.
Without that harmony there can be an elegant way
of satisfying the categoreal demands for
subjective harmony that distorts the
values of the world and contributes only trouble for the future.
Each
of the other occasions has its own
value, the objective fact
of its own
subjective process
of satisfaction
of the categoreal obligations.
Fundamental to this task is the search for an objective ground for
value claims — a well - reasoned argument for external standards which resists the ever - present tendency to reduce ethics to the
subjective whims and passions
of personal self - interest.