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normative assumptions .
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Examples
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There is another important benefit to exposing the myth of neutral, value-free judging: changing how judicial opinions are written.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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When Ken Clarke announced the privatisation of our prisons, Labour shadow ministers capitulated with the value-free statement of support: "What works is what's best."
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Evolution from simple to complex, from value-free to value-full, from as they used to say in the old days monad to man.
Michael Ruse: Is New Atheism A Religion? Michael Ruse 2011
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Evolution from simple to complex, from value-free to value-full, from as they used to say in the old days monad to man.
Michael Ruse: Is New Atheism A Religion? Michael Ruse 2011
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They are being groomed – not by pervy old men hanging over computer keyboards, but by today's ideology-free, value-free consumer culture, which tells them they're sexually hot or they're nothing.
Bring back the F-word if you want to do more than worry about girls | Jackie Ashley 2011
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They are being groomed – not by pervy old men hanging over computer keyboards, but by today's ideology-free, value-free consumer culture, which tells them they're sexually hot or they're nothing.
Bring back the F-word if you want to do more than worry about girls | Jackie Ashley 2011
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But surely I am not to be permitted to transform these aesthetic judgments into a "value-free science" that dismisses them all as simply one or another species of neurotic or psychotic.
Rothbard on Szasz, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I've just been having a chat b/c with Mike Brock about postmodernism and science, with me taking the view that science is neither "objective," nor value-free, nor the only valid epistemology.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Harris, a neuroscientist himself, is out to demolish the idea that science is by definition a value-free space.
Steve Paulson: Spiritual Science, Rational Morality: Rethinking the Divide Between Science and Religion Steve Paulson 2010
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Perhaps one positive thing that might emerge from this political tempest in a teapot is a public awareness that scientists are fallible, emotional, and anything but value-free -- just like everyone else.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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