Editing Judgement (section)

== Aristotle's study of judgement ==
The power or faculty of judgement may be used to render judgements, in seeking to understand ideas and the things they represent, by means of ratiocination, using good or poor discernment or judgement. Each use of the word judgement has a different sense, corresponding to the triad of mental power, act, and habit.<sup>[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]'']</sup>

Whether habits can be classified or studied scientifically, and whether there is such a thing as [[human nature]]<sup>[''[[Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Stay on topic|relevant?]]'']</sup>, are ongoing controversies.<sup>[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]'']</sup>

===Judging power or faculty===
Aristotle observed that the ability to judge takes two forms: making assertions and thinking about definitions. He defined these powers in distinctive terms. Making an assertion as a result of judging can affirm or deny something; it must be either true or false. In a judgement, one affirms a given relationship between two things, or one denies a relationship between two things exists. The kinds of definitions that are judgements are those that are the intersection of two or more ideas rather than those indicated only by usual examples — that is, constitutive definitions.<sup>[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]'']</sup>

Later Aristotelians, like [[Mortimer Adler]], questioned whether "definitions of abstraction" that come from merging examples in one's mind are really analytically distinct from judgements. The mind may automatically tend to form a judgement upon having been given such examples.<sup>[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]'']</sup>

===Distinction of parts===
In informal use, words like "judgement" are often used imprecisely, even when keeping them separated by the triad of power, act, and habit.<sup>[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]'']</sup>

Aristotle observed that while propositions can be drawn from judgements and called "true" and "false", the objects that the terms try to represent are only "true" or "false"—with respect to the judging act or communicating that judgement—in the sense of "well-chosen" or "ill-chosen".<sup>[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]'']</sup>