Concept
Judgment (law)
Overview
formal decision made by a court following a lawsuit
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It at once suggests certain possible solutions drawn from the mass of organized experience at the command of the person judging. At this stage the judgment is disjunctive. In the illustration it would probably take the form: "This is either bread or cake." The further course of the judgment rejects the cake alternative, and selects the bread, and the final outcome of the judgment is…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
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To know what is _good_ judgment we need first to know what judgment is. [Sidenote: Judgment and inference] That there is an intimate connection between judgment and inference is obvious enough.
John Dewey, How We Think
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In every case in which I judge, with regard to something which I am seeing or feeling with my hands, that it is a so-and-so, simply because I do perceive, by sight or touch, that it is in fact a thing of that kind, we can, I think, fairly say that the judgment in question is a judgment of perception. And enormous numbers of judgments of the kind I mean are, quite plainly, judgments of perception in this sense. They…
G. E. Moore, Philosophical Studies
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Thus our judgment is wholly reduced to constituents with which we are acquainted, but Julius Cæsar himself has ceased to be a constituent of our judgment. This, however, requires a proviso, to be further explained shortly, namely that "the man whose name was _Julius Cæsar_" must not, as a whole, be a constituent of our judgment, that is to say, this phrase must not, as a…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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For instance, the judgment: "A triangle is a space enclosed within three lines," has for its last reason the Principle of Identity, that is to say, the thought expressed by that principle. The judgment, "No body is without extension," has for its last reason the Principle of Contradiction. This again, "Every judgment is either true or untrue," has for its last reason the Principle of the Excluded Middle; and…
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
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