Definition of judgment
- v. i. - The act of judging; the operation of the mind,
involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the
values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual
concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by
careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments
he forfeited confidence.
- v. i. - The power or faculty of performing such operations
(see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding
rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a
politician without judgment.
- v. i. - The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a
decision.
- v. i. - The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is
conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or
sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as
the judge of all.
- v. i. - That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas
which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of
ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may
be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of
concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two
judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as
analytic, synthetic, and identical.
- v. i. - That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent
upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
- v. i. - A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of
recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
- v. i. - The final award; the last sentence.