Re: 'prepare' njc

[sl . m]

Colin, maybe the distinction you're getting at is between fact and value (rather than facts, ideas, beliefs etc).

As philosophers put it, value judgements have no "truth value" - that is, they are neither true nor false.

A value judgement would be, for example, a moral statement "stealing is bad" or an aesthetic one "this is a beautiful portrait" or a statement to do with personal taste or experience "this orange tastes good".

The so-called "fact-value distinction" is a big topic in philosophy.

Sarah


Colin wrote:
If there is no distiinction bewteen beliefs and ideas and facts, then we
are well and truly stuffed.