Value
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| - | :When culture can be '''bought and sold''', [[taste]] becomes an increasingly useful social marker. It was commerce that gave 'culture' to the middle classes, but commerce could also sully it. So the Georgians set about building a national culture - from the plays of Shakespeare to the music of Handel - that only the qualified could properly enjoy. As this culture widened, paradoxically the separation of [[high]] and [[low]] ('polite' and 'vulgar') sharpened. -- [[John Mullan]] | ||
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| # The [[quality]] (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or [[valuable]] | # The [[quality]] (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or [[valuable]] | ||
| #: ''The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious '''value''' in the modern world.'' | #: ''The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious '''value''' in the modern world.'' | ||
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- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- The degree of importance you give to something.
- The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- He tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices.
- Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
- The exact value of pi can never be computed.
Value can refer to:
- Value (personal and cultural) -- the principles, standards, or quality which guides human actions
- Value (economics) -- the market worth or estimated worth of commodities, services, assets, or work.
- Value theory -- in ethics, aesthetics and other evaluative matters
- Value (semiotics)
See also
- Artistic merit
- Anthropological theories of value
- Theory of value for more general discussions of economic value.
- Moral character
Synonyms
- (quality that renders something desirable) worth
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