Verifiability of Value

WORLD torn by total war needs no reminder that it suffers deeply from conflicts arising from diverse systems of valuation and from inadequate procedures for resolving those conflicts. Yet, despite obstructions and regressions, a spirit of open inquiry and experimental formulation and testing has emerged and is being gradually extended in many human affairs, as, for example, in industry, public health, education, legal procedure, and even in international relations. To develop and examine the implications of this spirit for certain basic issues in value theory and social action is the purpose of the present study. The central problem is the nature and extent of the verification possible in value matters. Foreword Contents I. Values and the Present Situation II. The Nature of Value Verification III. Empirical Analysis of Verifiability IV. Logical Analysis of Verifiability V. Knowing and Valuation VI. The Quantitative and the Qualitative VII. The Descriptive and the Normative VIII. The Factual and the Creative X. The Objective and the Subjective X. Existence And Value XI. Idealism and Naturalism XII. Toward The Future Bibliography Index