In various high-level government positions, Timothy Geithner, Mr. Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, and Lawrence Summers, his choice for director of the National Economic Council, each has demonstrated a capacity for good judgment and good ideas.
In past conflicts, this problem was usually resolved by smart junior military officers, who may not have been as militarily effective as smart weapons, but who had a capacity for human judgment.
It seems we may conceive of a capacity for spontaneous judgment triggered by and responsive to visual stimuli, which would occur in the absence of the judger's phenomenally conscious visual experience of the stimuli: the stimuli don't look any way to the subject, and yet they trigger accurate judgments about their presence.
The president made his rejection of habeas corpus and his assumption of a godlike capacity for judgment explicit later in the speech, while discussing another matter.
For example, a capacity for social transitivity judgments is viewed to be supported by knowledge about the social hierarchy (Paz et al., 2004; Cheney and Seyfarth, 2007).
Do the writers of the Daily Telegraph's editorials fear a loss of their capacity for judgment because of spin and sloganeering or do they view their readers as incapable of seeing through political theatrics?
It governs our experience of our bodies, it retains and composes the inner narrative of our lives, it absorbs the givens of family, culture and education, it orders the data of our senses into a coherent and continuous report on the physical world, it gives us a capacity for moral and ethical judgment, it enables us to understand our needs and interests and to act on them.
Unless things change, the dominance of digital technology means that, over time, humans will lose their capacity for judgment, discrimination and self-sufficiency.
The prefrontal cortex of the primate frontal lobes provides the capacity for judgment which can constantly adapt behavior in order to optimize its outcome.
New Deal" had ushered in an era where the President was personally responsible for managing an ongoing existential crisis for the country, surrounded by expertise, but reliant on his own capacity for judgment and execution.
In this he is drawing partly on the tradition of Catholic social teaching, and partly on moral thinking popular in the 1960s, when moral philosophers were first grappling with the implications of nuclear weapons and the sense that humankind had not grown up but reached its toddler stage, where the capacity for destruction far outweighed our capacity for judgment.
