Judgement

A form of thinking in which the mind determines the object of thought. Affirmation or negation of thinking objects is the most basic feature of judgment. True or false is the other feature. A judgment is true when the content it affirms or denies conforms to the reality of the object it judges. Otherwise, the judgment is false. Although the truth of the hypothesis has not been finally verified, it is always true or false objectively. The result of the judgment should be tested through practice. If the practice outcome has reached the expectation of the judgment, the judgment is proved to be consistent with the reality of the thinking object and the correctness of the judgment. Therefore, the criterion to test whether the judgment is correct or not is practice. Judgment is expressed in sentences, but not all sentences can express judgment. Only sentences that directly contain true or false statements can express judgment. In common logic, judgment is divided into simple judgment and compound judgment, modal judgment and non-modal judgment according to different division criteria. It is very necessary to correctly understand and apply the knowledge and methods of judgment provided by common logic for correct logical reasoning. Aristotle, as the founder of formal logic in ancient Greece, expounded the theory of judgment (proposition) in his “On Interpretation” and “Prior Analytics”, especially made a systematic study on simple judgment (mainly categorical judgment, that is, categorical proposition in traditional logic) and modal judgment. Since then, Stoic logicians have further proposed and studied complexes of judgments such as hypothetical conditional judgments and disjunctive judgments. It is of great significance for people to correctly understand and grasp the logic structure of judgment and the knowledge of judgment classification in common logic, so that they can correct their thoughts and logic reasoning…

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