Download or read book Value Reasoning written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is—or should be—a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives. Above all, it maintains the objectivity of rational evaluation.