axiologist
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
axiologist (plural axiologists)
- A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of value.
- 1962, Robert S. Hartman, “Axiology as a science,”, in Philosophy of Science, volume 29, number 4, page 421:
- The moral philosophies are even more important to the moral scientist—the axiologist.
- 1990, Thomas Hughes, “Review of Lewis Mumford: A Life by Donald Miller,”, in Technology and Culture, volume 31, number 4, page 914:
- It led willy-nilly to technological determinism, a philosophy that Mumford, the axiologist, generally repudiated. Even in the later pages of Technics and Civilization, he stresses the role of values in shaping technology.