caa a22 4500 386319197 CHVBK 20180307111619.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0957042X00009883 doi S0957042X00009883 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0957042X00009883 Clark Stephen R. L. Value Judgments: How to Reason About Value Judgments [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen R. L. Clark] When opinion polls are conducted on some urgent matter of the day (the character of Colonel Qaddafi, or the compatibility of some soon-to-be-married royal couple) those polled are permitted to declare themselves ‘Don't Knows'. It is usually a minority who are so ill-disposed as to forget their civic duty to have an opinion on each and every subject, and they can usually expect to be rebuked as fence-sitters or slugabeds. People confronted by the demand that they take sides can generally produce a ‘view' which they maintain against all-comers without the slightest attempt to seek out confirmation or counter-evidence. Sometimes, no doubt, this view ‘bubbles up' from the speaker's entrenched evaluations and opinions; sometimes it has simply been selected, off the cuff, from the available alternatives and entered in the speaker's ‘axiom set', the things she'll say when asked, or which she may even ‘act on' in some more material way—without any implication that the alternative opinion would not once have done as well. Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1988 Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series Cambridge University Press 24(1988-03), 173-190 0957-042X 24<173 1988 24 PHS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0957042X00009883 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0957042X00009883 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Clark Stephen R. L. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series Cambridge University Press 24(1988-03), 173-190 0957-042X 24<173 1988 24 PHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge