"The Constitution assigns Congress the power to decide on war for good reasons: collective judgment, arrived at through robust and transparent debate, is superior to that of a single individual; Members should be politically accountable when our government asks U.S. service men and women to risk their lives," the letter continues.
Because of these factors, our scientific judgment is that a 10-fold uncertainty factor is insufficient, which is the same judgment arrived at in the U.S. EPA draft assessment (U.S. EPA 2002) and in the Massachusetts risk assessment (Mass DEP 2004).
Judgments arrived at, or "constructed," according to this reasoning are objective insofar as they are acceptable to all citizens, independently of the particular position they hold in society and the specific interests that accompany such a position.
Moreover, the soul's functions are, as we have seen already, not restricted to grasping and appreciating truth, but prominently include regulating and controlling the body and its affections (such as beliefs and pleasures, desires and fears), no doubt in light of suitable judgments, arrived at, or anyhow supported and controlled, by reasoning.
Bob Dylan will turn 70 next Tuesday — unless of course Judgment Day arrives in the meantime, an eventuality that Mr. Dylan might well take in stride.
"The ceasefire is finished, it will return when judgment day arrives," said one resident of Aleppo, Syria's largest city where fighting raged throughout Monday night.
That is, he concluded there were different pages for different players, a judgment he arrived at after watching tapes of the games and talking individually to the players.
Under a fee-for-service system, doctors were paid for the work they did: for time spent talking to patients, reviewing treatments and using their medical judgment in arriving at a proper diagnosis.
But as a call for us to hurry up and re-engage lest judgment day arrive first, "13" makes an oddly pro forma case for the reawakening of passion.
It's a short step toward reversing the terms of judgment and arriving at racist theories like the one advanced by Wagner in his anti-Semitic essay "Judaism in Music".
