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What constitutes a Judgment.
EPISTEMOLOGY AND LOGIC. so construed by its intellectual companion. In other words, we may say, as we have done before, that all knowledge would take some form of Judgment, be it expressed in words or by implication.
Thus the question as to the nature of knowledge ultimately resolves into the question with regard to the nature of Judgment, and a final answer can be given by analysing it into its component elements. By an element of Judgment is meant whatever is necessary to its being a Judgment from our point of view as an interpreter. There are three such elements in a Judgment. A Judgment to be as such must have an object to be interpreted ; for, an interpretation of nothing whatsoever is no interpretation at all. So, one of the ele- Its three Elements involved in interpretation is the object to be interpreted. This must be given to us. It must stand there revealed to us. This object of knowledge is termed as the given. The second element is the actual interpretation itself. To deny this would involve selfcontradiction. Thirdly, we have, as the final element of Judgment, those laws or
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