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Definition of Axiology
1. Noun. The study of values and value judgments.
Definition of Axiology
1. Noun. (context: uncountable philosophy) The study of the origin, nature, functions, types, and interrelations of values; value theory. ¹
2. Noun. The particular value theory of a philosopher, school of thought, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Axiology
1. the study of values and value judgments [n -GIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Axiology
Literary usage of Axiology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
"Some hold that the problems of the place of values in reality or of the relationships
of existence and value (axiology) do not belong to metaphysics. ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"Their emphasis is on the management of situa- 1 The term ' axiology ' was suggested,
I think, by WM Urban for the science of worth-predicates as contrasted ..."
3. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"... meta-psychology or philosophy of selves and society; epistemology or philosophy
of knowledge; and axiology or philosophy of values. ..."
4. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"6), we follow Urban]in adopting the term " axiology " for the theory of value
considered as attributed to objects or predicated of them—a theory ranking ..."
5. The Principles of Pragmatism: A Philosophical Interpretation of Experience by Henry Heath Bawden (1910)
"... laws, types, are the most real things in the universe. The real is the universal.
Philosophy is now taking the form of a theory of value — axiology. ..."
6. A Critique of Economics, Doctrinal and Methodological by Oswald Fred Boucke (1922)
"But furthermore, the question of value and of valuation has been given a larger
setting, so that by the end of last century there arose a theory of axiology ..."
7. Belgium and Germany: A Dutch View (De Belgische Neutraliteit Geschonden) by Johan Hendrik Labberton (1916)
"It is on this account also that axiology, although practically the most important
of all the philosophic sciences, is scarcely yet born. ..."
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