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value-free Definition

value-free (val′yo̵̅o̅ frē′)

adjective

not altered or influenced by value judgments value-free research

value-free Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • science: Such a value-free science must be combined with an appropriate end.
  • zone: No one could have left the session laboring under the illusion that economics was a value-free zone.
  • knowledge: To integrate ethical insights with the supposedly value-free knowledge of the natural, physical and ( with some exceptions ) social sciences.
  • exercise: Story-telling is not an morally neutral, value-free exercise.
  • process: However, this is by no means claiming that evaluation is a value-free process.
  • information: The scriptures then do not so much convey value-free objective information, as they also exalt, express, reflect, and invite.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: The step back from measurement to judgment about the welfare state of the animal involves an interpretation, which is not value-free.
  • entirely: He allows that in the writing of history there is a degree of subjectivity and that it can never be entirely value-free.