Sentence examples for genuine judgment from inspiring English sources

[What Mary Mothersill calls her "Second Thesis" in her book Beauty Restored is the thesis that a judgment of taste, such as "Beethoven's first Rasumovsky quartet … is beautiful (has artistic merit)" (p. 145) "is a 'genuine' judgment" (p. 146). However, as she realizes, we then need to know what makes a judgment a genuine judgment. She mentions truth, but wisely does not stop there.

Since in reaching a genuine judgment of taste one is aware that one is not responding to anything idiosyncratic in oneself, Kant asserts (1790, section 8), one will reach the conclusion that anyone similarly situated should have the same experience: that is, one will presume that there ought to be nothing to distinguish one person's judgment from another's (though in fact there may be).

Although appeal to such evidence is itself controversial (e.g., Kauppinen 2008, Prinz 2006), some suggest that persons with certain damaged or underdeveloped brain functions, perhaps including psychopaths and sociopaths, actually make such genuine judgments (e.g., Roskies 2003, 2005).

But the internalist, we saw, can perhaps explain cases of apparent amoralism as cases, not of genuine moral judgment, but of inverted commas moral judgments, anthropological judgements about the morality of one's social group.

The trouble is that disputes over whether the examples in question are cases of genuine moral judgment can easily degenerate into exercises in stipulative definition and the trading of intuitions tutored by divergent theories.

But this is not a genuine moral judgment so much as a kind of sociological observation, the difference between these types of judgement being just what internalism would lead us to expect.

Because there is no compelling evidence of the patient's wishes, a genuine substituted judgment cannot be made.

He comes from an era when producers made genuine aesthetic judgments and not just deals".

First of all, while they will concede the existence of people who feel no motivation to do what they say they "ought" to do, they can deny that these people have made genuine moral judgments.

Kuhn's devotion to baseball was genuine, but his judgment was not sound.

"I am confident this was a genuine error of judgment and that he understands the offence his comment has caused.