standard of value
Example Sentences
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It is holding human nonimpact as one’s standard of value, without regard for human life and happiness.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
“Its life is the standard of value directing its actions,” Rand wrote, “it acts automatically to further its life and cannot act for its own destruction.”
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2012
The dollar thus became the standard of value against which all other moneys in the non-Communist world are measured.
From Time Magazine Archive
In distinction from Psychology, it has to do with it not merely as a fact to be analyzed, but with reference to its nature, quality, or content, judged by a standard of value.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
