Sentence examples for substantive judgment from inspiring English sources

He argued the process for the decision making was not as pertinent as the substantive judgment, which was that Rudd was not well suited to the role of UN secretary general.

The key move in that philosophy is to shift the emphasis from substantive judgment — is what has been said good and true? — to a requirement of procedural reciprocity — you must treat speakers equally even if you can't abide what some of them stand for.

However, the court was keen to stress that it was not making a substantive judgment on whether Hamas was in fact a terrorist organization, ruling that the designation — which has been challenged by the group — could not be made on the basis of the evidence provided. .

But from the perspective of the liberalism within which Harel writes, neither the state nor the political theorist can make in-advance substantive judgments on what does and does not have a place in the marketplace of ideas.

The bank said in its letter that the S.E.C. had "consistently stated that it does not seek to enforce any particular compensation philosophy or impose any substantive judgments on the form or amount of compensation".

Firstly, substantive judgments describe ways of being beautiful or ugly (Burton 1992, Zangwill 1995).

The idea is that these substantive judgments are aesthetic in virtue of a special close relation to verdictive judgments of taste, which are subjectively universal.

And this mid-level scale permits the historian to make substantive judgments about the "reach" of social processes that are likely to play a causal role in the story that needs telling.

[Remark: this may not be true of words like "dainty" and "delicate", but it is true of the particular substantive judgments that we linguistically express in such words on particular occasions.

"It is evidence rather that Senator Bradley has made a catastrophically poor political and substantive policy judgment in designing a health-care proposal that is disintegrating in front of his eyes".

Is it a conceptual truth that discrimination is wrong, or is it a substantive moral judgment?