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Judgment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not true and false but true or false — a point Aristotle saw and contemporary logic no longer even notices.

Judgment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not the home of truth; to claim Aristotle for that thesis misunderstands the Greek idea of truth altogether.

Judgment (n.) takes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠apart what was already seen whole: I must have had the blackboard in view as something unitary before I can say what it is or isn't.

Judgment (n.) on ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one's age is decisive not because it is negative but because it evaluates at all — it fixes the price range the age belongs to, and instantly seems in the right.

Judgment (n.) collapses, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠once its root in the 'as' is forgotten, into binding and separating representations — and then into a calculus that no longer thinks about being at all.

Judgment (n.) split ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into a real psychical act and an ideal content is broken into two levels that can never be pieced back together into a knowing — which may be why two thousand years have made no headway.

Judgment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a trivial, exhaustively studied phenomenon, yet it returns us at a stroke — as everywhere in philosophy — to the expanse and uncanniness that profound boredom had opened.

Judgment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing but the way given cognitions are brought to the objective unity of apperception — that is what the "is" is for: to tell objective unity from merely subjective association.