The nature of value judgments

Judgment is a thought expressed in a narrative sentence, which is a lie or a truth. Simply put, a judgment is a statement, an opinion about an object or phenomenon, a refutation or confirmation of the truth of a particular phenomenon. They form the basis of thinking. Judgments can be factual, theoretical and evaluation.

Actual judgments

Let's start with the definition of the word "fact". A fact is something that has already happened, which has taken place in history and is not subject to challenge. The connection between factual and value judgments is that facts can always be thought of, they are not subject to challenge, but are suitable for analysis. The analysis is the value judgments.

Evaluation judgments

A characteristic feature of value judgments is the insertion - "In my opinion", "My opinion", "In my opinion", "From our point of view", "As stated," etc. Estimated judgments can be a demonstration of an elementary purely evaluation character, then they consist of the words "bad", "good", etc. And can be the ground for explaining the influence of the fact on other objects, reasoning about the causes of what happened. Then the value judgments will contain the following turns: "may be an example of ...," "is an explanation ...", etc.

Theoretical judgments

Theoretical judgments are reformulated factual judgments. They have the face of definitions, carry theoretical knowledge. For example: "As the income of buyers increases, the demand for goods increases" - this is the actual judgment. Proceeding from it, it is possible to formulate a theoretical proposition: "A commodity is called normal, the demand for which increases with the growth of the population's income".