Concept

Suspension of judgment

Overview

cognitive process and a rational state of mind

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To the second objection I reply by denying, that we have a free power of suspending our judgment: for, when we say that anyone suspends his judgment, we merely mean that he sees, that he does not perceive the matter in question adequately. Suspension of judgment is, therefore, strictly speaking, a perception, and not free will. In order to illustrate the point, let us suppose a boy imagining a horse, and perceive…
Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics
States what Suspension of judgment is; names Suspension of judgment.
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It is in this process of reconstruction that subject and predicate appear. Sensory quality marks the point of stress, or seeming arrest, while the ideal or imaged aspect defines the continuing activity as projected, and hence that with which start is to be made in coping with the obstacle.
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Suspension of judgment; the term itself is not named.
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Suspension of judgment is in all other cases the resource of the judicious inquirer; provided the testimony in favor of the anomaly presents, when well sifted, no suspicious circumstances.
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
States what Suspension of judgment is; names Suspension of judgment.
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