The phrase "act of judgement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of making a decision or forming an opinion about something, often in a moral or evaluative context.
Example: "The act of judgement in this case was difficult, as it involved weighing the consequences of each possible decision."
Alternatives: "decision-making process" or "evaluation process".
It might seem that one can form such concepts prior to engaging in an act of judgement, hence also prior to forming a negative judgement.
But Zabarella had instead the problem of restoring to the human mind an active faculty which would account for the act of judgement.
These positions indicate the act of judgement; he is deciding if souls are to be sent to Heaven or Hell, his gestures echoing the direction and positioning of the scales held by the Archangel Michael beneath him.
After bringing the issue down to earth--always exceedingly important to him in a way it wasn't to other intellectuals of the day--he placed emphasis on the changing nature of value judgements in its place: "It's a matter of the framework shifting around the act of judgement", he wrote in the 1992 essay, "Revaluing the Value Judgement".
Indeed, as around one-third of articles (56) provide very limited details on their data sources, or data collection and analysis methods, even describing the methods underlying these articles requires an act of judgement.
To think that negative judgements are "on all fours" with positive judgements, is to confuse the act of judging with a "polemical" rejection of what others think or say.
In this way, negative concepts can be formed by reflecting on acts of negative judgement.
"The lack of judgement and arrogance is quite something.
that a = b requires a special act of recognition in judgement.
The act of making a judgement takes time and as many commentators pointed out in response to the open letter, time is very precious at the early stages of a business.
Reid glosses Hume and Smith's theory as being that "Moral Approbation or Disapprobation is not an Act of the Judgement, which, like all acts of judgment, must be true or false, it is only a certain Feeling, which, from the constitution of human nature, arises upon contemplating certain characters of qualities of mind cooly and impartially" (EAP 5.5, 301 2).
