THE 3 MOST OUTSTANDING ELEMENTS OF THE JUDGMENT - CULTURE VOCABULARY - 2025

The elements of the judgment as thought are the subject, the predicate and the copula, and are classified by quantity, quality, by relation and modality.

A judgment can be understood as a rational thought that seeks certainty or falsehood from the analysis.

The judgment understood as thought has been a widely studied branch in philosophy, and its first analyzes can be observed in the work of Aristotle.

Aristotle stated that: "Judgment is thought composed of more than one idea, but endowed, at the same time, with a special unity that is achieved through copulation." (Wellmer, 1994).

To affirm or deny something about a person, be it a true or false statement, one must use rational thought and judgment to reach a correct conclusion.

Based on this idea, a judgment about someone will be considered true when it has a direct correspondence with reality. On the contrary, a false judgment will be one that departs from known information.

The 3 main elements of the judgment

The elements of the judgment as thought are made up of the subject, the predicate and the copula, a component that is also interpreted as the verb to be in the third person.

1- Subject

The subject comes to represent the person, thing or situation investigated about which you want to reveal a truth, or who is attributed or blamed for something.

2- Predicate

Represents all the information and arguments that are exposed about the subject to determine their truth, innocence or guilt.

3- Copulation

The copula or nexus is the element that serves to establish that everything that was argued in the predicate is really proper or not of the object of the trial.

Trial classification

After distinguishing the three elements, the trial must be classified according to their quantity, to establish whether they are universal, particular or singular; or by its quality, being able to be affirmative or true and negative or false.

These classifications also include their relationship and their modality.

Quantity

Judgments by quantity have several meanings. These can be spoken of as universal judgments when they refer to all individuals of a race.

On the other hand, particular judgments occur when an allusion is made or when several objects or things are examined, but within a small part of the whole.

Finally, singular trials are those in which a single individual is analyzed in particular.

Quality

Affirmative judgments are those that present a correlation between the subject and the predicate; for example, when it is said that man is a rational being.

They can also be negative when they clearly express the incompatibility; for example, when it is said that humans are not birds.

Relationship

Judgments can be categorical when they are not subject to another condition. They can also be hypothetical, when a statement is made that will always depend on a condition.

Finally, the judgments can be disjunctive, which are those in which one predicate or another is affirmed. For example, "Maria is a student or a teacher."

Modality

There are problematic judgments, which express unproven judgments. There are also assertory judgments, which express verifiable truths of the subject or the predicate.

In addition, apodictic trials stand out, which are those trials that express a need.

References

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