26 July 1814 '.4.III +

Logic

Ch.3.IV. Operations

'.4.III. Subjects conjunct

III. Judgment

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III. Judgment Deduction - Inference - Conclusion -

Judgment supposes two objects at the least. Question (suppose) the goodness - the fitness of some single object; still some other object or objects with relation to which the one in question may be fit or unfit must be in view; - indistinctly at least if not distinctly.

III. Class the 3 d. Class III. Operations, in the performance of which objects or subjects more than one are considered as being at the same time present to the mind.

1. Judication.

2. Decision.

3. Determination: and antecedently to it, and for the purpose of it,

4. Comparison.

5. Examination.

When after examination and comparison made of any two or more of the objects that have presented themselves to it, any inference is made or conclusion come to in relation to them by the mind, a judgment is thereby said to have been formed and passed - an act of the judicial faculty exercised - an operation of the judicial faculty performed.

Decision and determination are with no less frequency and propriety applied to operations of the volitional than to those of the judicial faculty.

Decision, from decido compounded of de off and cædo to cut, is a word that represents the mind as if cutting off at a certain point the thread of examination, and thereby cutting short the intellectual process.

Determination - from de, off, and terminus a term or boundary, intimates that with reference to the object in question whatever chain of examination has been carried on, has been brought to an end.