Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy
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The Dependence <strong>of</strong> Fact upon "Value"<br />
Analysis <strong>of</strong> ghetto riots and <strong>of</strong> "backlash"<br />
similarly<br />
knowledge. For example, riot behavior has to be discriminated into<br />
235<br />
presupposes normative<br />
categories <strong>of</strong> ordinary criminality and political militancy; i.e., the behavior<br />
has to be judged as either self-seeking or vicious or as justifiable and manly<br />
wrath. And what happens to the fact-value distinction when the very word<br />
"backlash"<br />
means an unjustified or excessive hostility<br />
For example, in a survey study <strong>of</strong> backlash, every<br />
respondent would involve a normative judgment. In short,<br />
empirical analyses <strong>of</strong> behavior rest upon tacit "value"<br />
value premises can have no objective validity,<br />
or punitiveness?<br />
characterization <strong>of</strong> a<br />
all important<br />
premises; and if the<br />
neither can the empirical<br />
conclusions. You can't teU one factual datum from another without a<br />
normative score card.