axiologyn.

1902 P. Lapie Logique de la volonté v. 385 La science de la valeur et la science du bonheur: l'Axiologie et l'Eudé~monologie.]

1908 J. M. Baldwin Thought & Things II. xiv. 381 ‘Axiology’ is a term suggested, I think, by Professor W. M. Urban for the science of worth-meanings as predicates, as contrasted with ‘epistemology’ which treats of predicates of fact.

1926 J. Laird Study Moral Theory 33 Pure axiology, the science of values of every species.

1907 W. M. Urban in Psychol. Rev. XIV. 5 The term axiological (constructed on the analogy of the term epistemological), is here used to distinguish the problem of validity or evaluation of worth predicates from the psychological problem of their description and genesis.

1931 A. Wolf in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. xiii. 547 The frst axiological problem is: How many and what ultimate values are there?

1954 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 7 168 In a Biblical theology there is bound to be an axiological element; the judgment of value cannot be excluded.

1908 J. M. Baldwin Thought & Things II. xiv. 381 In the further reading of the context preferentially and so to speak ‘axiologically’.

1935 Mind 44 295 There are..in the writings of all Objectivist axiologists chapters ostensibly directed to ‘proving’ some selected list of ‘intrinsic’ values.