Sentence examples for form of a judgment from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, they express their pleasure in the form of a judgment, speaking "as if beauty were a quality of the object," and so representing their pleasure as objectively valid.

She added, however, that while a tenancy by the entirety could be dissolved only by consent or by a court order -- typically in the form of a judgment of divorce -- a two-person joint tenancy could be changed into a tenancy in common by one party without the consent of the other.

To talk about the form of a judgment will involve a subtly different notion of 'form' than to talk about the form of a linguistic representation.

The form of a judgment could be understood along the lines we understood the form of a linguistic representation when we talked about formally valid inferences.

If thoughts, and thus judgments, are realized by minds having a certain relation to mental representations, and if these representations are themselves structured like a language, with a "syntax" and a "semantics" (properly understood), then the form of a judgment could be understood just like the form of a sentence.

Kant contends that the logical form of a judgment is what makes it capable of truth or falsity, for by means of such a form a judgment can constitute a relation of a subject's representations to an objective feature of reality (Longuenesse 2000, 93 4).

For example, he claims that categorical judgments express a logical relation between subject and predicate that corresponds to the ontological relation between substance and accident; and the logical form of a hypothetical judgment expresses a relation that corresponds to cause and effect.

They knew that it was an immense tract of land, that it would be the subject of grave criticism, and they knew more about it, and were better capable of forming a judgment of the correctness of that survey, than this court can be.

This marks an important difference between specific performance and money damages: unlike a decree of specific performance, an award of damages is in form a judgment of law, a declaration of the rights of the litigants, and not a direct order to the losing party.

The test of insanity was extremely narrow; defendants had to prove that they were incapable of distinguishing between good and evil, and, following the trial of John Firth in 1790, that they suffered from a mental disease which made them incapable of "forming a judgment upon the consequences of [their] actions".

These features are imposed when the mind, in the act of forming a judgment about experience, brings the content of experience under one of the "pure concepts of the understanding".