standard of value
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This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
From Forbes ● Jan. 29, 2015
We are sloppy about the standard by which we measure good and bad, our 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
Floating of the dollar, the currency that has served as the standard of value for all other non-Communist money, would represent the ultimate in flexibility.
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 C. M. Williams
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