One / The Emergence of Appraisive Concepts and their Nature.- 1.0 The Etiology of Values.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Emergence of Appraisal.- 1.21 Sense.- 1.22 Expectation.- 1.23 Appetition.- 1.24 Emotion.- 1.25 Demand.- 1.26 Creditation.- 1.27 Celebration.- 1.3 Areas of Emergence.- 1.31 Sex-Related.- 1.32 Tendentive.- 1.33 Personal.- 1.34 Economic.- 1.35 Communal.- 2.0 The Fourfold Root of Appraisal.- 2.1 Contrary Affinities.- 2.11 Appraisive Counterparts.- 2.12 Appraisive Contradictories.- 2.13 Appraisive Contrasts.- 2.2 Illustrations.- 2.3 Awareness of Affinitive Relations.- 2.4 Intuition and Logic.- 3.0 Modes of Appraisal.- 3.1 Personality and Appraisal.- 3.2 Aristotle’s Tripartite Division of the Virtues.- 3.3 The Common Element in Appraisive Contradictories.- 3.4 Illustrations.- 4.0 Creditation and Qualification.- 4.1 The Good: Explicit and Implicit.- 4.2 Content and Vacuity in Characterizing Concepts.- 4.3 Qualification.- 4.4 Creditation.- 4.5 The Descriptive-Appraisive Distinction.- 5.0 Character and Characterization.- 5.1 The “Character” Vocabulary.- 5.2 Character and Its Mysteries.- 5.3 Appraisive Conceptual Forms.- 5.4 Self-Characterization.- 6.0 Areas of Appraisal Compared.- 6.1 Survey of the Areas.- 6.2 The Right and the Just.- 6.3 Area Contrasts: Moral and Aesthetic.- Two / Critical Characterization.- 7.0 Aesthetic Appraisal Illustrated.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Structure.- 7.3 Elemental Quality.- 7.4 Presentation.- 7.5 Essential Character: Emotional, Social and Other Values.- 7.6 Style.- 7.7 Context.- 8.0 Musical Characterization.- 8.1 The Area of Musical Characterization.- 8.11 Introduction.- 8.12 Sketch of the Area.- 8.2 Physical Character of Music.- 8.21 Movement.- 8.211 Speed.- 8.212 Quality of Motion.- 8.22 Volume.- 8.221 Dynamic Magnitude.- 8.222 Change of Volume.- 8.223 Emphasis.- 8.3 Sensuous Quality: Intermedial Analogies.- 8.31 Visual.- 8.311 Light.- 8.312 Space.- 8.32 Auditive.- 8.33 Somatic.- 8.331 Tactile.- 8.332 Gravid.- 8.34 Savory.- 8.35 Thermal.- 8.4 Temper and Feeling.- 8.41 Tone and Temper.- 8.411 Power-Accommodation.- 8.412 Humor.- 8.413 Extra-Normal Atmospheres.- 8.42 Emotion or Feeling.- 8.421 Feeling: General.- 8.422 Affection-Disaffection.- 8.423 Joy-Affliction.- 8.424 Hope-Fear.- 8.5 Style and Expression.- 8.51 Stylistic Character.- 8.511 Grandeur.- 8.512 Grace.- 8.52 Informal Analogies.- 8.53 Expressive Modes.- 8.531 Speech.- 8.532 Other Expressive Modes.- 8.533 Song.- 8.6 Moral Quality.- 8.61 Elevation.- 8.62 Inner State.- 9.0 The Structure of Aesthetic Concepts.- 9.1 Qualification and Creditation in Critical Concepts.- 9.11 Appraisives of Structure.- 9.111 Structure: Clarity.- 9.112 Structure: Development.- 9.113 Structure: Balance, Proportion and Economy.- 9.12 Elemental Quality.- 9.13 Presentation; Expression.- 9.14 Feeling, Emotion.- 9.15 Explicit Evocation.- 9.16 Style.- 9.17 General and Ultimate Appraisives.- 9.2 Functional Aspects of Artworks.- 10.0 Metalinguistic Terms in Evaluation.- 10.1 Acceptance and Rejection.- 10.2 Emergence of the Problem.- 10.3 Metalinguistic Appraisives.- 10.4 The Aptness of Aesthetic Characterization.- 10.5 The Descriptive Function of Appraisive Terms.- 11.0 The Importance of Appraisal.- 11.1 The Importance of Importance.- 11.2 Appraisive Determinism.- 11.3 Appraisive Creativity.- 11.4 Summary.- Notes.