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NOTE 4. The Negation of Valuation

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Chapter 4 THE NEGATION OF VALUATION

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In dealing with judgments of value, we have looked upon them as ultimate data not liable

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to any reduction to other data.

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We do not contend that judgments of value as they are uttered by men and used as guides

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to action are primary facts independent of all the other conditions of the universe.

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Such an assumption would be preposterous.

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Man is a part of the universe.

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He is the product of the forces operating in it, and all his thoughts and actions are,

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like the stars, the atoms, and the animals, elements of nature.

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They are embedded in the inexorable concatenation of all phenomena and events.

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Saying that judgments of value are ultimately given facts means that the human mind is unable

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We do not know why and how definite conditions of the external world arouse in a human mind

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a definite reaction.

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We do not know why different people and the same people at various instances of their

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lives react differently to the same external stimuli.

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We cannot discover the necessary connection between an external event and the ideas it

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Produces Within the Human Mind.

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To clarify this issue, we must now analyze the doctrines supporting the contrary opinion.

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We must deal with all varieties of materialism.