favoring
English edit
Verb edit
favoring
- present participle and gerund of favor
Noun edit
favoring (plural favorings)
- (philosophy) The act or state by which one favors something; preference.
- 2018, Stefan Fischer, The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism, page 69:
- Unlike in Smith's case, however, here the relevant intuition does not concern a particular example, but moral favorings in general. Intuitively, it is said, what we morally ought to do simply does not depend on what we want to do.