ABSTRACT
We have seen that whether we bring about changes in the value of things or simply make a judgement about their value we are permeating the elements o f reality with value. Our subjective experiences of this permeation can be distinguished in formal terms, and, as I said above (Ch.3, §2), it is one of the tasks of the theory of gradation to set out these distinctions between types of value-experience. This will serve both to indicate one of the chief forms of emphasis, and also to draw attention to the phenomena of gradation within the individual types of "acting on reality in response to value". This classification of value-experiences is based solely on the relation between value-awareness and objective elements of being, and does not coincide with the different kinds of devotion to value (see Ch.3, §4). Depending on its object, value-experience can be directed to the removal or exclusion of elements of reality (cleanness), their mutual disposition and sequence (correctness), their existence in a framework of value (accomplishments) and their existence as such (the directly Valuable: devotion to value itself). I call these types 1. Exclusion, 2. Coordination, 3. Incorporation, 4. Directness (selecting these very general and colourless terms because I want to make it clear that my concern here is the combination of purely formal elements).
