evaluative diversity

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evaluative diversity (countable and uncountable, plural evaluative diversities)

  1. The disparity of worldviews and moral beliefs (the thing discriminated in evaluativism).
    • 2001, Joel Anderson, “Competent Need-Interpretation and Discourse Ethics”, in William Bohman, Rehg James, editors, Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory: Essays in Honor of Thomas McCarthy, Mit Press, →ISBN, page 208:
      But such evaluative diversity just is what reasonable pluralism about values involves.
    • 2009, Evangelos Karapanos, Jean-Bernard Martens, Marc Hassenzahl, “Accounting for diversity in subjective judgments”, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, →ISBN, page 640:
      Evaluative diversity lies in the process of forming overall evaluations of the product (e.g. good-bad) on the basis of product quality perceptions.
    • 2010, Gerald Gaus, “Evaluative Diversity and the Problem of Indeterminacy”, in The Order of Public Reason: A Theory of Freedom and Morality in a Diverse and Bounded World, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42:
      Rational evaluative diversity is not about mere private conflicts that are irrelevant to what moral rules agents have reason to endorse; they are fundamental to what a person sees as rational social-moral rules to live by.

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