[Revised entry by Pekka Väyrynen on January 21, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, supplement.html]
Evaluative terms and concepts are often divided into “thin” and “thick”. We don’t evaluate actions and persons merely as good or bad, or right or wrong, but also as kind, courageous, tactful, selfish, boorish, and cruel. The latter are examples of thick concepts, the general class of which includes virtue and vice concepts such as generous and selfish, practical concepts such as shrewd and imprudent, epistemic concepts such as open-minded and gullible, and aesthetic concepts such as banal and…

Read the full article which is published on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (external link)