Full Idea
Examples of value-maker concepts are courageous, honest, cowardly, corrupt, elegant, tacky, melodious, insightful. Employing these concepts normally means both evaluating and describing the thing or person one way or another.
Gist of Idea
Value-maker concepts (such as courageous or elegant) simultaneously describe and evaluate
Source
Francesco Orsi (Value Theory [2015], 1.2)
Book Reference
Orsi,Francesco: 'Value Theory' [Bloomsbury 2015], p.4
A Reaction
The point being that they tell you two things - that this thing has a particular value, and also why it has that value. Since I am flirting with the theory that all values must have 'value-makers' this is very interesting.
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