Sentence examples for think of judgments from inspiring English sources

But he was reluctant to think of judgments of taste as purely personal preferences.

The first thing to be emphasized here is that we shouldn't think of judgments and their contents as something like mental contents—subjective or psychological states of a thinker's mind.

So Gibbard suggests we would do better to think of judgments to the effect that an action would be irrational as expressing rejection of any set of norms which does not forbid it.

In the first instance, we think of certain judgments as being correct.

Of course, we might well say "I think X is beautiful," because we wish to express uncertainty, but where we judge confidently, we think of our judgment as being correct.

On this approach, judgments of daintiness, dumpiness, delicacy and elegance stand in a special and intimate relation to judgments of beauty and ugliness (or aesthetic merit and demerit), and it is only in virtue of this intimate relation that we can think of all these judgments as belonging to the same category.

We might then think of a moral judgment as a complex mental state that normally exemplifies both functions (Campbell 1998 and 2007).

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In their simplest form, such intuitions can be thought of as judgments about whether the relevant concept does or does not apply to particular cases.

Singer (1974: 517; cf. 493) understands Rawls' (1971) method of reflective equilibrium as "leading us to think of our particular moral judgments as data against which moral theories are to be tested …." As Singer (1974 493n33) notes, Rawls (1951) in an early paper made the analogy with scientific theory choice explicit.

But here we must keep in mind Hegel's two-fold way of thinking about judgments, de dicto and de re, and while it is usual to think of the contents of de dicto judgments as abstract (here to think of the content as propositional is usual), some have thought of the contents of de re judgments as including the thing itself (the "re") that the judgment is about.