There is a need for a value-neutral term for non-SF. From Wordnik.com. ["Mimetic Fiction"] Reference
“Sexually value-neutral” might be more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Male Privilege Checklist: Clothing-Related Issues] Reference
Hoberman's comment wasn't value-neutral at all, obviously. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.] Reference
Well, frankly, this value-neutral approach is hard to understand. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2001] Reference
Once we skate on Economics as "value-neutral," we are on thin ice. From Wordnik.com. [Man, State, Economics] Reference
The second translation is more value-neutral and thus more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
Obama has mostly adopted the value-neutral language of the pro-choice community. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Waldman: Obama's Squandered Opportunity On Abortion -- And How He Could Turn It Around] Reference
He notes that the economy in general involves moral, not value-neutral, choices. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
Note (2) is a “positive” definition of “exploit” and (1) is arguably value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:] Reference
However, it is an open question whether being value-neutral and being unbiased are the same. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Illness] Reference
I have to force myself to go back through and read these for content in a value-neutral state. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
Note: there is nothing "wrong" with these techniques -- the means, in this case, are value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [Charles H. Green: Lessons in Propaganda: What Our Politicians Learned from Business] Reference
Because where a belief may be value-neutral, a trust is implicitly positive and a hope is explicitly so. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
The idea that economics, of all the social sciences, should be that value-neutral seems a little bizarre, no?. From Wordnik.com. [Happiness Research Still Makes Me Unhappy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Hoberman's description of Schindler's List is entirely accurate, but in theory it's completely value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.] Reference
The necessary content thesis and the justice-aptitude thesis together establish that law is not value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Positivism] Reference
For that reason, it may be value-neutral — becoming either constructive or destructive, depending on the context. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:] Reference
The problem is, "political genius" is a value-neutral term -- it applies as much to a Stalin as an Abraham Lincoln. From Wordnik.com. [Why I'm not gloating] Reference
He wanted his concept be value-neutral: to be a charismatic leader is not necessarily to be an admirable individual. From Wordnik.com. [Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Tal Howard] Reference
But if we go to a value-neutral term, then that requirement is no more necessary than any religious requirement or test. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson goes after right-wing fear-mongering on marriage equality.] Reference
Positivism is however sometimes more credibly associated with the idea that legal philosophy is or should be value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Positivism] Reference
Even (3) can be construed as value-neutral if the workers are presumed to want as much income as they can stand to work for. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:] Reference
If critical assessments are in fact qualitative judgments based on arbitrary criteria, how can they possible be value-neutral?. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative, essentialist] Reference
No value-neutral scientific experiment or theory can answer that question, and we have to bring values into our considerations. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Illness] Reference
Or is she just acting the part of a value-neutral psychologist or counselor, and not giving moral advice or vocational guidance?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-15] Reference
Teens keep committing murders here in Washington state, and news reports follow - in the usual piecemeal, value-neutral fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Washington State Kids Who Kill] Reference
Science is not value-neutral; we must not pretend that science and technology are inherently harmless or, worse, inherently good. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
The thing is that the “neutral” in “value-neutral” is only so from the perspective of the ideology of the hegemonical class. From Wordnik.com. [Male Privilege Checklist: Clothing-Related Issues] Reference
His second book, on Palestinian nationalism, is in the same vein, although it already seems from the summary much less value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Joseph Massad Awarded Tenure at Columbia:] Reference
Even (3) can be construed as value-neutral if the workers are presumed to want as much income as they can stand to work for.bbbeard(Quote). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:] Reference
Better is value-neutral, better is non-ideological and apolitical. From Wordnik.com. [Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Reference
Any descriptive text accompanying the link should be value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [U.Va. Mobile] Reference
The humble points that follow are value-neutral; they do not mandate any specific course of …. From Wordnik.com. [Dartblog] Reference
"The answers to questions such as" Is the planet warming up? "and" If so, why? "should be value-neutral.". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Liberals and conservatives may both "rightly" claim a term or it could be pointed out that a term is value-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
What Americans regard as a value-neutral, universal idea - namely, that citizens have a right to the free and open flow of information. From Wordnik.com. [Articles on National Review Online] Reference
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