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Judgment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like a watch: the most ordinary machine tells the hours, but only the most elaborate marks the minutes and seconds between one man and another.

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Judgment (n.) from ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠contrary experiments is a mind first divided within itself, leaning to each side in proportion to what it remembers, and settling with a force diminished by the losers.

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Judgment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠forced on us by nature as breathing and feeling are; no one was ever sincerely and constantly a total sceptic, and whoever refutes one disputes without an antagonist.

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Judgment (n.) need ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not unite two ideas: 'God is' contains only one, since existence is no idea added to its object — so the logicians' division of conception, judgment and reasoning collapses into conception.

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Judgment (n.) corrects ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the heart the way it corrects the eye: a distant object throws half the image yet we know it is no smaller, and a distant hero moves us less yet we know he is no less great.