[4]. Charles Taylor calls this an epistemic gain; David Velleman, an advance in self-understanding; Ruth Chang, finding a more comprehensive value. In other writing, I've called it sorting out how you want to approach things.

• (*) They are called ideals in Anderson 1993, although she also uses several other terms. The term virtue has a long tradition, from Aristotle to MacIntyre. (I avoid that term because virtue is, in current usage, usually conceived of as high-minded and morally significant, and my use here is comparatively practical, and not necessarily moral.) Charles Taylor's terms of strong evaluation is closer to my meaning, but doesn't roll off the tongue. Velleman, Chang, and Putnam all seem to sometimes use the term value roughly as I do.