ABSTRACT
Instances of valuing are often quite different in character, and one is led to suspect that any analysis which obscures these differences, for example by trying to show that all acts of valuation are essentially the same, will be impossibly complicated from the outset. Differences found among acts of valuation must not be obscured. Moral arguments often center on those differences. This chapter outlines an application of the procedures in the sorting of valuations into at least five rough classes or types, namely summary valuations, affective valuations, calculative valuations, good-of-its valuations, and fittingness valuations. The way in which the list of valuational acts was arrived at is a straightforward, commonly-used procedure. If several things called valuation have no significant property in common, it is clear that we would mislead ourselves by lumping them together for the purposes of moral philosophy.
