Sentences with phrase «value judgments»

A legal regulator is charged with making value judgments on difficult moral questions; it can not both discharge its mandate and be value neutral.

Perhaps best of all, it's mostly free of value judgments on how well or poorly the systems work.

Scientific assessment of risk can provide an important starting point for such value judgments about the danger of climate change.

We must recognize value judgments of this kind for what they are rather than confusing them with the historical record itself.

Although there are features of economic theory that are «purely» scientific and value neutral, they are embedded in a wider context that is loaded with value judgments.

But it is controversial in many other cases, because judges must make important value judgments on history and tradition that, many argue, are better left to elected representatives.

It's a word that for better or worse has definite value judgments attached to it.

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

While choices about the mix of measures should be made partly based on evidence, they also require value judgments.

In truth, the most important interests are likely to be conflicting value judgments.

The pragmatic aspects, which involve us in checking whether our ideas work, also including value judgments; for a tree is known by its fruits, and faith without works is dead.

Portfolio construction Successful portfolio construction is the result of properly managing and integrating the desired portfolio characteristics and the more subjective relative value judgments.

If you ask children what they think of a painting, you'll probably get simple value judgments.

I don't see any evidence that conceptual value judgments exist on their own in the world without people to have them in their minds.

Putting blanket value judgments on this or the people who favor one publishing path over another as universally good or bad is ridiculous.

By adding an extra layer of coverage, an umbrella policy is an effective way to protect yourself from major claims and high value judgments.

It's because money invites both literal and figurative value judgments.

The artists believe that political systems are essentially built upon human actions and predictions, and for that matter, create an archive of incidental value judgments.

Both the environmental aspects and the personal risk aspects (possibly contamination of your house if the bulb breaks) need to be considered, and personal value judgments enter the decision.

I am simply pointing out that in administrative law, difficult and controversial value judgments can be as prevalent as they are in constitutional cases involving fundamental rights.

Drawing on a range of extensive databases can help inform those lawyers advising businesses in dispute resolution who can then make an informed value judgment about risk and cost.

«We really value your judgment because of your sense of the local economy,» he said.

Just listen and ask questions, without making value judgments.

That's a very different question, and one laden with values judgments.

A client might value the judgment of the lawyer on business issues as well as legal issues.

It is arrogant, reckless and hazardous to make value judgments on the significance of a species.

By embracing and using this approach, we have the opportunity to gain some new understanding or insight into an issue which lies beyond the limits of our own personal value judgments and experiences.

Morality is a mental process that deals with value judgments as they relate to a person's self and relations with other people.

I do entirely understand that in your role as a reporter you can't editorialize and pass judgment about what happens in the world, but you do edge into value judgments in some of your blog pieces and so I found the general lack of indignation in your piece rather disconcerting.

As bioethicist Dr. Stuart Youngner once put it, «futility determinations will inevitably involve value judgments about: 1) whether low probability chances are worth taking; and 2) whether certain lives are of a quality worth living.»

Help them discover that journalists and newspapers must also make value judgments by encouraging them to explore the six core values of journalism from the National Assication of Journalism Editors:

He voices concerns about the following threats to scientific integrity (see especially the last page): appealing to emotions; making personal (ad hominem) attacks; deliberately mischaracterizing an inconvenient argument; inappropriate generalization; misuse of facts and uncertainties; false appeal to authority; hidden value judgments; selectively leaving out inconvenient measurement results.

You make value judgments based upon your crzy bible.

Former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair also thinks that governments should not «make their own value judgments about Bitcoin.»

This is a result of our evolved tribal brains leading us not only to place such value judgment on beliefs but also to demonize and dismiss them as nonsense or evil, or both.

Jerry Taylor, an economist at the Cato Institute, also sharply criticized the scientists» statement, saying, «I do not believe that «the experts» in any field should be dictating climate policy because there are plenty of important value judgments built in to those policies, and experts, however defined, have no objectively better values than you or I.»

I see some implicit value judgments being made about the game and the direction of the series, but no, Scott Jones hasn't really tried to influence you either way in whether it's a game worth buying.

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

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.

These are approaches to religion employed by «social scientists» who presumably refrain from making what are called value judgments.

At this point I am going to make an unabashed value judgment.

There are two steps here: first, to ascertain what Millard Fillmore did as president, which is not nearly so easy as ascertaining the size, shape and color of a bird; and second, to decide what it means to have been a good president in the early 1850s, which involves not only historical knowledge but also some interesting value judgments.

In stating in summary fashion the Christian conception of the Kingdom of God we are not pretending that we can see perfectly what this means, nor are we saying that we can arrive at a formal principle which can act as a rule by which all Christian value judgments can be simply made.