Ageing often brings with it crippling bids for perfection, rather than the spontaneous, judgment-free creativity of the young.
Both were agreed that the starting point of human inquiry about the world was the spontaneous judgments we make about the world.
But Mill's taking spontaneous judgments of sense and of perception as the starting point of inquiry while taking them also to be fallible and corrigible continues to be an example worthy of consideration as a philosophy that is at once empiricist in its framework yet non-foundationalist in its epistemology.
Nelkin conceives of this evaluation as a form of spontaneous de re judgment about the phenomenal state as representing harm to the body.
Woodward adds, "It's pretty clear that Bush's role as politician, President and commander in chief is driven by a secular faith in his instincts — his natural and spontaneous conclusions and judgments.
As we have seen Mill insist, humans find themselves as embodied creatures in the world, making "spontaneous" and "unscientific" judgments about the way the world is and about their being in that world.
Analyzing the 94 narrative comments provided on the items across the debriefing interviews, 11 remarks concerned comprehension difficulties, 13 remarks concerned clarity, 25 remarks concerned knowledge and recall (ease of memory retrieval), and 45 remarks concerned ease of judgment or spontaneous comments.
The probation report deemed the crime a "spontaneous" act of "poor judgment," while the psychiatrist judged it "playful mutual eroticism".
I've read somewhere that most of our judgments are spontaneous, made within the first few moments of an encounter.
The remarks on the items were further categorized into those concerning 1) comprehension difficulties, 2) clarity, 3) knowledge and recall (ease of memory retrieval), and 4) ease of judgment and other spontaneous comments.
