A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. Act of judging, or, less commonly, proposition, or content of an act of judging. Acts of judging by different people or at different times, but with the same content, may, however, count as a single judgment (e.g. if you and I both judge that grass is green). Whether it is acts or contents that logic is primarily concerned with has been disputed. Idealists and pragmatists have tended to prefer acts, and formal logicians contents.
Judgment is often equated with BELIEF, or with the formation of belief, though belief is a state or disposition rather than an act; ‘judgment’ itself, however, has a dispositional sense in phrases like ‘in my judgment…’, ‘a person of judgment’.
Judgments are sometimes limited, in both ‘act’ and ‘content’ senses, to cases where an element of assessment or evaluation is concerned, e.g. moral judgments may be contrasted with statements of fact. See also SENTENCES, THINKING.
P.T.Geach, Mental Acts, RKP, 1957. (One view of judgments. Fairly difficult.)
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