Value or values may refer to:
Ethics and social
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Value (ethics)
In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of something or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of dif ...
wherein said concept may be construed as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, associating value to them
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Values (Western philosophy) expands the notion of value beyond that of ethics, but limited to Western sources
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Social imaginary
The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the ...
is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular
social group
In the social sciences, a social group can be defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity. Regardless, social groups come in a myriad of sizes and varieties ...
Economics
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Value (economics)
In economics, economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a goods, good or service (economics), service to an Agent (economics), economic agent. It is generally measured through units of currency, and the interpretation is therefore ...
, a measure of the benefit that may be gained from goods or service
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Theory of value (economics)
A theory of value is any economic theory that attempts to explain the exchange value or price of goods and services. Key questions in economic theory include why goods and services are priced as they are, how the value of goods and services comes ...
, the study of the concept of economic value
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Value (marketing), the difference between a customer's evaluation of benefits and costs
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Value investing, an investment paradigm
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Values (heritage)
The values embodied in cultural heritage are identified in order to assess significance, prioritize resources, and inform conservation decision-making. It is recognised that values may compete and change over time, and that heritage may have diff ...
, the measure by which the cultural significance of heritage items is assessed
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Present value
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Present value of benefits
Business
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Business value
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Customer value proposition
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Employee value proposition
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Value (marketing)
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Value proposition
Other uses
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lightness
Lightness is a visual perception of the luminance (L) of an object. It is often judged relative to a similarly lit object. In colorimetry and color appearance models, lightness is a prediction of how an illuminated color will appear to a stan ...
or tone, a representation of variation in the perception of a color or color space's brightness
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Value (computer science)
In computer science and software programming, a value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program. The members of a type are the values of that type.
The "value of a variable" is given by the corresponding mapping ...
, an expression that implies no further mathematical processing; a "normal form"
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Value (mathematics), a property such as number assigned to or calculated for a variable, constant or expression
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Value (semiotics), the significance, purpose and/or meaning of a symbol as determined or affected by other symbols
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Note value, the relative duration of a musical note
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Values (political party), a defunct New Zealand environmentalist political party
See also
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Instrumental and intrinsic value
In moral philosophy, instrumental and intrinsic value are the distinction between what is a ''means to an end'' and what is as an ''end in itself''. Things are deemed to have instrumental value if they help one achieve a particular end; intrinsic ...
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Value theory
In ethics and the social sciences, value theory involves various approaches that examine how, why, and to what degree humans value things and whether the object or subject of valuing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. Within philosophy, ...
, a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree people value things
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