The phrase "a substantive judgment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a judgment that is significant, meaningful, or based on substantial evidence or reasoning.
Example: "The court's decision was based on a substantive judgment regarding the evidence presented."
Alternatives: "a meaningful decision" or "a significant ruling".
The bank said in its letter that the S.E.C. had "consistently stated that it does not seek to enforce any particular compensation philosophy or impose any substantive judgments on the form or amount of compensation".
Is it a conceptual truth that discrimination is wrong, or is it a substantive moral judgment?
Accordingly, the sentence 'Discrimination is wrong' can be either a tautology (if 'discrimination' is used in its moralized sense) or a substantive moral judgment (if 'discrimination' is used in its non- moralized sense).
The key move in that philosophy is to shift the emphasis from substantive judgment — is what has been said good and true? — to a requirement of procedural reciprocity — you must treat speakers equally even if you can't abide what some of them stand for.
He argued the process for the decision making was not as pertinent as the substantive judgment, which was that Rudd was not well suited to the role of UN secretary general.
The idea is that these substantive judgments are aesthetic in virtue of a special close relation to verdictive judgments of taste, which are subjectively universal.
But from the perspective of the liberalism within which Harel writes, neither the state nor the political theorist can make in-advance substantive judgments on what does and does not have a place in the marketplace of ideas.
Firstly, substantive judgments describe ways of being beautiful or ugly (Burton 1992, Zangwill 1995).
And this mid-level scale permits the historian to make substantive judgments about the "reach" of social processes that are likely to play a causal role in the story that needs telling.
