But identifying a tipping point is a historical judgment after change takes place.
A historical judgment by the Venice Appeal Court (Italy) in 2004 finally put an end to a controversial class-action law suit, which began over 10 years prior, by denouncing the deaths of 120 workers by various types of tumours.
There may come a time when it no longer seems worth playing, as some postmodernist thinkers have suggested though postmodernism defines itself as post through a historical judgment.
For one thing, consulting the record of the sage-kings' actions hardly seems to be a good idea in Mohist terms given the Mohist objection to valuing tradition for its own sake, unless these actions are good guides because they produced good results, a historical judgment that was commonly accepted by otherwise disputing philosophical schools.
"We're having to do the most difficult of things, to look at the past that many of us grew up in and take a measured historical judgment about it," said Roger Lang, an architect and member of the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
Hence may be seen the error both of those who advocate a merely historical judgment upon art (historical critics) and of those who advocate a merely aesthetic (aesthetic critics).
It has become an awkward ritual of the modern presidency that the current occupant of the Oval Office is called upon to deliver a generous historical judgment of the previous one.
We need not enter this debate in the attempt to reach a definitive historical judgment, but the following considerations counsel against adopting the definitive conclusions upon which Bowers placed such reliance.
And then everyone could go off to attack the shrimp, while pleading Lewis's case for a favorable historical judgment against the likes of Butkus and L. T. That's all it usually takes, a token effort, a gesture of decency, because most people have already come to the grudging conclusion that contemporary professional sports are not about family values, or viewing.
