Judgment

Judgement (or judgment) is the evaluation of evidence in the making of a decision. The term has four distinct uses:

  • Informal - Opinions expressed as facts.
  • Informal and psychological – used in reference to the quality of cognitive faculties and adjudicational capabilities of particular individuals, typically called wisdom or discernment.
  • Legal – used in the context of legal trial, to refer to a final finding, statement, or ruling, based on a considered weighing of evidence, called "adjudication". See spelling note for further explanation.
  • Religious – used in the concept of salvation to refer to the adjudication of God in determining Heaven or Hell for each and all human beings.

Famous quotes containing the word judgment:

    “We either praise or blame according to whether the one or the other provides the greater opportunity to let our power of judgment shine.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”
    —Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)