Noun : public valuation of the importance of education. From Dictionary.com.
But from the perspective of a fellow middle-aged Ivy League grad, Mr. Kirn's recall of every book he skimmed and every literary smokebomb he dropped into an English paper ( "valuational," "heuristic") -- every hoop he jumped through -- seems both hilarious and damning. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Getting Ahead] Reference
Sub-valuational paraconsistent semantics have been proposed by Hyde, 1997, and Varzi, 1997. From Wordnik.com. [Dialetheism] Reference
Given the obvious dualities between the LEM and the Law of Bivalence on the one side, and (respectively, syntactic and semantic formulations of) the LNC on the other, it is not too difficult to envisage a ˜sub-valuational™ semantic approach, dual to the supervaluation strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Dialetheism] Reference
The attitudes of respect, then, have cognitive dimensions (beliefs, acknowledgments, judgments, deliberations, commitments), affective dimensions (emotions, feelings, ways of experiencing things), and conative dimensions (motivations, dispositions to act and forbear from acting); some forms also have valuational dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Respect] Reference
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