Btw, an excellent book on this topic (which I have just read) is Robert F. Mager’s “Goal Analysis”—it gives a rather detailed procedure for reducing “fuzzies” to testable statements, and even goes a bit more into some of the ramifications you mention here, though the emphasis is on reducing business and education concepts like “we want people to take pride in their work” and “we want students to be serious about their education”.
Btw, an excellent book on this topic (which I have just read) is Robert F. Mager’s “Goal Analysis”—it gives a rather detailed procedure for reducing “fuzzies” to testable statements, and even goes a bit more into some of the ramifications you mention here, though the emphasis is on reducing business and education concepts like “we want people to take pride in their work” and “we want students to be serious about their education”.