Sentence examples for practical judgments from inspiring English sources

They concern partial and practical judgments about some aspect of our varied and complex cultures: whether or not people are on the whole trustworthy; the likelihood that people receiving social security are "striving" or "skiving"; whether exams are getting easier or harder.

Thus, value judgments are practical judgments.

Dewey's point is that value judgments are essentially practical judgments.

Action on the practical judgments that proceed from deliberation is self-aware.

The basic data for analysis of moral action come from observing the practical judgments ordinary people make and their understanding and use of normative concepts.

Inquiry is an activity, and this sort of approach, in Dewey's hands, led to a rejection of there being a sharp dichotomy between theoretical judgments and practical judgments.

The nursing home, Rumpole learns, is "all rules and no practice," whereas his own strength as a lawyer is good practical judgment unencumbered by formalities.

The problem is that, in practice, what is required of a determination of capacity is a practical judgment of a bivalent type.

The Bush administration's moralistic slant on things continues to determine its course at the expense of logical, practical judgment.

Sophia (roughly, theoretical knowledge), he says, grasps universal truths, whereas phronesis (roughly, good practical judgment) is required to properly apply these truths to particular instances.

Williams finds something bizarre about the theoretical ambition of discovering a standard for practical judgment that escapes the perspectival peculiarities of the individual point of view.