Persuasion vs Valuation - What's the difference?
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The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.
* 2006 , Rachel Morris, "Borderline Catastrophe", Washington Monthly , vol. 38:10:
An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
* 1928 , "The New Pictures", Time , 13 Feb 1928:
A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.
One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.
A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.
* 2009 , US Catholic (letter), May 2009:
(colloquial) Any group having a specified characteristic or attribute in common.
* 2010 , "We don't need gay stereotypes", The Guardian , 6 Feb 2010:
An estimation of something's worth.
(finance) The process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability.
* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, page 4:
(logic, propositional logic, model theory) An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables (obtained through the recursive application of truth-valued functions corresponding to the logical connectives making up those formulas).
(logic, first-order logic, model theory) A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
(algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
(measure theory, domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.
Persuasion is a related term of valuation.
As nouns the difference between persuasion and valuation
is that persuasion is persuasion while valuation is an estimation of something's worth.persuasion
English
(wikipedia persuasion)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- With the base unleashed, the White House was unable to broker a compromise, either by persuasion or by pressure.
- Sadie curses, weeps, then, infected by Mr. Hamilton's writhing persuasions , prays and becomes penitent.
- It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned.
- As a convert from the Baptist persuasion more than 40 years ago, I still feel like an outsider in the church despite the kindness and acceptance of Catholic friends.
- Social understanding and equality can neither be nurtured through fear, nor intimidation. Surely this goes for people of all sexual persuasions .
Antonyms
* dissuasion * dissuasionDerived terms
* persuade * persuasive * suasion ----valuation
English
(wikipedia valuation)Noun
(en noun)- The tax assessor put them in fourteen valuation groups ranging from one two-story brick house and two one-and-a-half-story houses to the largest groups of eighteen two-story houses and twenty-four one-story bungalows.