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axiologize en · VERB

Etymology

From axiology + -ize.

Meanings

1. (formal, rare) To evaluate with or as if with the manner of an axiologist; to appraise.
   • As early as in The German Ideology, M. Stirner's bourgeois-philistine tendency to axiologize economic categories and relations was refuted. 1969, International Arts and Sciences, Soviet Studies in Philosophy - Volumes 8-9, The Michigan University Press, page 395
   • The Buddhists, by attacking Brahma, simultaneously attack Brahman and then axiologize the latter in such texts as the Tevijja Sutta. 2006, Gananath Obeyesekere, Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, page 177
   • Merleau-Ponty is prone to axiologize such a distinction. 2013, Ted Toadvine & Lester Embree, Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl, page 119

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