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Perhaps it would be wise to re-read my text to which you appear to refer (#92 this thread):

Kindly identify the judgment and shallowness (or error) in the above – or acknowledge that you cannot.

Is it "shallow" to state that if someone says or strongly implies, "I am good looking", they can be correctly identified as "seem to think they are 'good looking'"? Kindly identify how and why that is shallow.

I prefer a more comprehensive and complex definition of the term "judgment". The "short form" or expedient would be "the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions"/

When I use the term it has NO religious connotations or influences. I realize that many people recoil from the term because of what they read in their preferred "holy" books; however, I am not bound by their beliefs.

Definition of Judgment from dictionary.net
Judgment \Judg"ment\, n. [OE. jugement, F. jugement, LL. judicamentum, fr. L. judicare. See Judge, v. i.]

1. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
2. The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
4. The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.
5. (Philos.)
(a) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or

1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
(b) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
6. A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. ``Judgments are prepared for scorners.'' --Prov. xix. 29. ``This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble.'' --Shak.
7. (Theol.) The final award; the last sentence.

Define Judgement - Source: '!' | Multi-Dictionary | Definition of Judgement

judgement
n 1: the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial
decision; "opinions are usually written by a single
judge" [syn: {opinion}, {legal opinion}, {judgment}]
2: an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to
make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind" [syn: {judgment},
{mind}]
3: the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing
conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {judging}]
4: ability to make good judgments [syn: {sagacity}, {sagaciousness},
{judgment}, {discernment}]
5: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
and to draw sound conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {sound judgment}, {sound judgement}, {perspicacity}]
6: (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction
on matters submitted to it [syn: {judgment}, {judicial decision}]
7: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or
event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
[syn: {judgment}, {assessment}]

I realize that many people apply "definitions" to the term that reflect religious implications. I am not bound or limited by such considerations.


I do not speak for "we", but for myself as an individual who lives in the real world and interacts with real people. Regarding EVERY person with whom I interact, I DO make decisions, evaluations, JUDGMENTS (the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions). I decide that some speak and act in ways that indicate they are trustworthy, honorable, upstanding, people of integrity. I decide that others indicate none of those things.

Whether we like it or not (or admit it or not), each of us uses "cognitive processes in reaching a decision or drawing conclusions" about other people. When we say I like (or respect) another person, we HAVE made a judgment. Likewise, when we say we dislike or disrespect another person, we have made a judgment.

Some of us acknowledge doing so. Others do not. Many base their aversion to "judgment" upon religious teachings. Others do not accept supernaturalism.

Who is "more enlightened"? Is it not a judgment that some are "more" and some "less" enlightened?

"Pump themselves up" is NOT required in "the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions". Instead, its use seems to indicate emotional involvement rather than reasoning in the decision process.

Decisions CAN be made on the basis of evidence and indications observed – without reference to the self – and without being centered upon emotion or theology.

One is certainly free to regard naiveté as judgment. However, to decide to not decide is a decision – that abrogates responsibility and transfers it to others or to chance.

If one values humbleness and naiveté over considered decision, it is their right to do so – for themselves. Others prefer to use cognitive processes to make decisions (or "judgments"). I am proudly among the latter to the greatest extent possible.

Kindly read my statements to which you refer and identify by quote exactly what judgment of people I have made.