wrongness's Usage Examples:

meta-ethics in that the former examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, whereas the latter studies the meaning of moral language and.

value judgment (or value judgement) is a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something or someone, or of the usefulness of something or someone.

and are, therefore, subjected to external judgement of the rightness or wrongness of those actions.

But does the actual wrongness of murder play an independent role? Is there any evidence that there is a property of wrongness that some types of acts.

Connotations include betrayal, discord, disharmony, unnaturalness, wrongness, evil, immorality, unrighteousness, wickedness, and vice.

theories are proven wrong in time", arguing that there exist degrees of wrongness.

of the evolution of the human race went wrong, and the course of its wrongness could neither be halted nor reversed by any human means.

clear impression of wrongness when they see (or perhaps even imagine) someone being mugged, for example.

However, though the wrongness is obvious, we may.

to a rule that leads to the greatest good, or that "the rightness or wrongness of a particular action is a function of the correctness of the rule of.

Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it.

conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.

An offending party then has knowledge of the "wrongness" of an act or event prior to committing it.

Consequentialist theories usually maintain that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on whether the results of the action are desirable.

though scientific theories are later proven wrong, the degree of their wrongness attenuates with time as they are modified in response to the mistakes.

Serravo (1992), the court found that the standard of knowledge of moral wrongness in the M'Naghten rule is the objective standard.

author of papers on philosophical aspects of biology and on the special wrongness which characterises racial discrimination, On living in an Unjust Society.

troublesome nightmare The Corinthian, Morpheus is alerted to the same wrongness and is summoned to an alien world to investigate.

the 'rightness' of happiness by means of a major third, expressed the 'wrongness' of grief by means of the minor third, and for centuries, pieces in a.

" The court also wrote on knowledge of moral wrongness in the case of a delusion of a deific decree, that God ordered a criminal.

Synonyms:

erroneousness; error; quality; incorrectness;

Antonyms:

unfaithfulness; unpleasantness; political correctness; correctness; rightness;