I think I am using them in their standard senses. Something has intrinsic value) if you directly desire or value it, and it has instrumental value or extrinsic value if it is a means to achieving something with intrinsic value. Instrumental value is often only contingently valuable as a result.
Folks with old-fashioned metaphysics use ‘intrinsic value’ to mean ‘value regardless of what anyone thinks about it’ - e.g. “Gieseking is valuable if nobody ever hears it”.
I think I am using them in their standard senses. Something has intrinsic value) if you directly desire or value it, and it has instrumental value or extrinsic value if it is a means to achieving something with intrinsic value. Instrumental value is often only contingently valuable as a result.
Folks with old-fashioned metaphysics use ‘intrinsic value’ to mean ‘value regardless of what anyone thinks about it’ - e.g. “Gieseking is valuable if nobody ever hears it”.
That’s why I say terminal.