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Value (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠aimed at without being grasped: absorbed in appreciating something, I apprehend the thing, but the value is my full object only in a non-apprehending way — a double intentio.

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Value (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a stratum laid over a perception or judgment: it can fall away and leave a complete experience behind, and the valued-as-such, like the perceived-as-such, leaves open whether the value is genuine.

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Value (n.) opens ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a totally new dimension of meaning: valuing adds no new marks to the mere material thing, but beauty and ugliness, goodness and badness — the object for use, the work of art, the machine, the book, the deed.

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Value (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be merely suggested, probable, or struck out, like being: "not-valuable" does not mean valueless, bad or ugly — it is simply the cancelling of "valuable."

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Value (n.) predicates, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠described as meant, wear inverted commas too: the tree "gloriously" covered with scented blossom is a value-noema, not a value simpliciter.