worth
the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain worth as an attribute and its senses, relay how value is understood in economics, ethics and psychology with attribution, describe assessment of worth, and distinguish worth from price, merit and self-esteem.
The quality that renders something desirable, valuable or useful, whether as economic value, moral merit or virtue, practical usefulness, or the extent of something as in largeness, together with its negative counterpart demerit; worth is assessed in economics, ethics, aesthetics and everyday judgement, and the word also names monetary net worth and personal self-worth in psychology.
What it is for: Not applicable; an evaluative attribute.
It can be explain the senses; relay theories of value; describe assessment; distinguish related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Evaluative attribute
Economic, moral and practical senses
Positive and negative poles
Context-dependent
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a judged quality.
How it is recognised
Quality of being valuable or useful
Value, merit, virtue, usefulness, largeness; demerit as the opposite
Price is what is paid; self-worth is a psychological sense; merit is earned worth
Related models
is a kind of - in general terms
is studied as - in economics
is studied as - in moral philosophy
is contrasted with - which is paid
In practice
Families and kinds
economic value and net worth
moral worth, merit and virtue
practical usefulness
aesthetic worth
extent senses such as largeness
self-worth in psychology
demerit as negative worth
Identifiers
WordNet oewn-04731092-n the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
Standards and regulation
No regulation; valuation standards in finance and appraisal as applied forms
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing worth with price
Presenting contested theories of value as settled
Conflating self-worth with economic worth
Analytical facets
- substance
- abstract
- origin
- conceptual
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- not-applicable
- scale
- not-applicable
- affordances
- observable
Also called
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Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What worth is.
Definition.
Definition
Senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What is worth, and how do economic, moral, practical and extent senses differ? definition
- Is the question about economic value, moral merit, usefulness or self-worth? boundary
Related
Related concepts.
Related
Related.
- How do worth, value, price, merit, virtue and demerit relate? definition
- Which entry fits the specific concept? action
Theory Theories of value.
Attribution.
Economics
Economic value.
Economics
Economics.
- What do labour, subjective and other theories of value say about economic worth, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Ethics
Moral worth.
Ethics
Ethics.
- How do Kant, virtue ethics and other traditions understand moral worth and merit? provenance
- Which entry fits axiology? action
Assess Assessing worth.
Practice.
Valuation
Valuation.
Valuation
Valuation.
- How is worth assessed in appraisal, finance and cost-benefit analysis? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Self-worth
Self-worth.
Self-worth
Self-worth.
- What does psychology say about self-worth and self-esteem, with findings attributed? provenance
- Is the user describing personal distress, which may need support services? boundary
Context Language and culture.
Context.
Language
Usage.
Language
Language.
- How is worth used in idiom and across languages? provenance
- Which entry fits value (semantics)? action
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How do cultures differ in what they deem worthy? provenance
- Which entry fits cultural values? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should value in economics and value in ethics be the primary linked entries?
- How should philosophical and economic sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming distinct senses; should they be split off?