Library and Information Science

This thesis describes a model on the prosess of formation of value judgement, which has been constracted by arguing about 1) knowledge and/or information, 2) emotion, in relation to ‘view of value’ that is produced from the process of human mental activity. As a result, the view of value araises as follows: (a) Knowledge which is relevant to the view of value is selected from a group of knowledge previously activated by an action of interest. (b) The selected knowledge is further chosen, rejected, or modified, by an ‘analog’ with the newly acquired information and/or knowledge, and (c) finally with the existing criterion for value judgement. The criterion is thus renewed through this set of the mental process, and a new view of value grows.