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Full Idea
The use of the word 'inconsiderate' seems to me a very fine example of the way in which the fact/value distinction is hopelessly fuzzy in the real world and in the real language.
Gist of Idea
The word 'inconsiderate' nicely shows the blurring of facts and values
Source
Hilary Putnam (Reason, Truth and History [1981])
Book Ref
Putnam,Hilary: 'Reason, Truth and History' [CUP 1998], p.139
A Reaction
Interesting, but not much of an argument. What would Nietzsche say? Was Agamemnon morally deficient because we might think him 'inconsiderate'?