“To value X” is generally held to mean “to perceive X as important.”
It is clear how a person can value something, so it is also clear how a particular person or people can have “values,” because values can be obviously defined as “things that a particular person or people perceive as important.” Some call such values subjective values.
However, on these forums I have recently heard the term objective value.
If the noun value is defined in the same obvious way, as “a thing that a particular person or people perceive as important,” and objective is defined in the usual way, as “not based on the perception of a particular person or people,” the resulting term objective value appears to be self-contradictory, hence a nonsense term.
If it’s possible for the term objective value to have any meaning at all, either objective or value will have to be defined differently from how I have defined them above.
I cordially invite all those who use the term objective value to provide definitions for objective and value that allow for the compound term objective value to make sense.
(Please stick to reasonably precise and unambiguous words in your definition. If you use words with many possible interpretations, such as “ought,” “should,” “right,” “wrong,” or “nature,” please define them in unambiguous terms.)