But sentences are merely the external expression of judgments, and often they do not express everything one has in mind when judging.
The second challenge, which the notion of mental prostheses shares with Scanlon's notion of the vicarious expression of judgment-sensitive attitudes, is that it is not clear why such functions could not be undertaken for nonhuman animals a possibility Scanlon leaves open in the above passage.
In the case of singular terms, similarly, what is of relevance is referential use.[10] The notion of application, hence, is more narrow than that of use, since we use our terms in a wide variety of ways that do not include the expression of judgments, as when we ask a question or make a hypothetical statement (see Millar 2004: 162).
Yet there is something a bit dreary about Kramer's call for such unvarnished expressions of judgment — something as inaccessible, in its way, as references to thiols or pyrazines.
The poorly concealed expressions of judgment on the faces of family and friends fueled my incredible anger for our situation.
The participants' expressions of judgment toward the parents of obese children were aligned with broader social stigma attached to obesity 29. 30 Given the participants' stigmatising attitudes, it is not surprising that they did not discuss their preschoolers' body weights with other family members.
It is for this reason that he can think that the procedure of completing sentences as expressions of judgments can be carried out.
In this case, the spoken sentence is the expression of the judgment (§30).
The condition just sketched in the antecedent is fundamental: without it, a sentence p might very well have been an expression of a judgment j once (j was a partial cause of p), but no meaning is linked with p: for, if p is incomprehensible, namely it is not a partial cause of another judgment j′, then nothing can be said to be its meaning (§31).
"While sexting can sometimes be an expression of bad judgment, it's not a crime and kids should not be criminalized for these mistakes," Michael J. Steinberg, the legal director for the ACLU Michigan, told WXYZ.
