Why Try to Define Normative and Evaluative Terms

in Descriptive/ Physicalist Terms

Evaluative Terms are Vague

To Avoid Vicious Circularity

As Part of the Overall Physicalist Project

Because Knowledge is Supposed to be a (the) Way We Relate to the World

How Does One Define Normative and Evaluative Terms

in Descriptive/ Physicalist Terms

Common Process:

Using Intuition (or some means of picking out paradigm cases)Pick Out Cases Knowledge

Analyze Them To Find (Physical) Commonalities

Another Process:

Work From and Understanding of How The Mind Works (as a physical object) to How it Must Relate to the World