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Excerpt from The Psychological Review, 1907, Vol. 14
The other distinctions, between real and ideal, actual and imputed, values show the same desire to remove the equivoca tions inherent in worth predicates. Sometimes we attribute worth to an object when we mean that it deserves to be valued irrespective of its actual valuation by any person or groups of persons. Such value is said to be ideal. Again there are objects of valuation, the existence or non-existence, or the possibility or probability of realization of which, are not inquired into, but which are abstractly valued and said to be ideal values in contrast to the real value of objects where the judgments of existence or possibility are true or grounded judgments. In both cases the real and the ideal values are equally functions of the relation of the object to the subject. The difference lies in the attitude Of the subject, in the different presuppositions of the feeling, in the two cases. Confusion of meaning arises only when these presuppositions are not made exphch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
