<epistemology, ethics> intrinsicism in epistemology claims that our evaluations of things as true or valuable are not affected by our nature as human beings, but that truth and values exist out there in reality, divorced from human interests and concerns. A classic example is the intrinsic theory of value in the economic thought of the Middle Ages, which held that there is one natural, intrinsically-correct price for each product in the world. This example shows the principle that intrinsicism is frequently the flip side of subjectivism, since the "natural price" was the price that the authorities or the guilds set up for themselves according to their own interests. Forms of objectivism attempt to offer workable alternatives to the false dichotomy of intrinsicism vs. subjectivism. (References from conceptualism, idealism, intuitionism, Kantianism, objectivism, perspectivism, Platonism, realism, and subjectivism.)
Edited by Giovanni Benzi
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