Objectivist theory of value: Difference between revisions

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::The value of the rock as being able to kill animals, requires both the intrinsic and the subjective to be present:

::*The intrinsic property of the rock of being both hard and heavy have to be present. A piece of [[pumice]] will not work.

::*The subjective need for meetmeat has to be present. A hard and heavy rock will be of no value to a vegetarian (although the rock may be of value as a [[grindstone]] to such a person).

::Therefore value is not a value contained solely in the object, or solely in the mind of the human, but is a relationship between the intrinsic facts of reality, and the subjective needs of humans. The value is said to be ''objective'' because for one particular human, under one particular set of circumstances, the value of an object will always be the same ''to that human''.