ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the Facts/Values dichotomy looks from the perspective of a pragmatic constructivist view of factual discourse. It also examines several aspects of factual properties and judgments that are frequently cited as the basis for distinguishing them from value properties and judgments. The concepts that value discourse casts on the world are shaped and constrained by demands of human nature. A related attempt to establish a sharp distinction between fact concepts and value concepts approaches the issue from the opposite direction. Science, it is admitted, may be thought of as a projection on nature, but this does not blur the Facts/Values distinction. The sciences of psychology, economics, and sociology, for example, employ mind-dependent, intentional notions. Sociology may have little of the authority of physics, yet what is learned about criminal attitudes and the behavior of confined groups helps establish standards for penal institutions.
