Nic Koziolek

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Elucidations · Episode 96: Nic Koziolek discusses the role of belief in reasoning · 8 May 2017 podcast

Right, good.

I should start by saying actually that

What I call a judgment is maybe importantly different in certain respects from what other philosophers have called judgment.

But the way that I understand judgment is actually

Essentially as a component of a larger mental act.

And so I'll explain judgments by talking about their role in these larger mental acts.

So for example, I think that a judgment is the only kind of component in an act of inferring, that is, an act of coming to believe something on the basis of something else you already believe.

So for example, if I believe that all philosophers are wise and I believe that Socrates is a philosopher, I might infer that Socrates is wise, and so come to form this new belief.

Now I think of those kinds of acts as essentially involving judgments.

So although I just described that act of inferring in terms of belief by saying it's an act of coming to believe something.

You can also describe the same act on my view in terms of judgment, and so you can say that

What that act of inferring is is an act of judging that Socrates is wise on the basis of your judgments that all philosophers are wise and that Socrates is a philosopher.

This is kind of a hard and complicated question in a certain respect.

So one w way that a lot of philosophers have talked about judgment is by analogy with assertion.

So they say that

To judge something is like saying something out loud to yourself, only not doing it out loud necessarily.

So it's like saying something to yourself in your mind.

Part of the idea of explaining judgments in terms of acts like inferring

is that it I think brings out certain aspects of the act of judgment that that other way of describing it by comparing it with assertion sort of leaves out.

The connection of judgment with you're figuring out what to believe, you're figuring out what you know, what you should think about the way that the world is.

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