ABSTRACT
To establish the reasons question more firmly within a context of production, it is necessary to consider directly rather than in relation to other problems the nature of the evidence through which proper judges of the arts maintain or fail to maintain their positions. Proper judges of the arts do not take their own esthetic perceptions or anyone else's as the sole proper considerations sustaining judgments—nor do they take those perceptions to possess in themselves the status of reasons. The chapter provides some illustrations to show that resolvable arguments about the binding force of the reasons for judgment do occur and, roughly, what those arguments are like "in a context of production". It deals with the weighing model for determining the force and relevance of reasons because in many ways that model seems prima facie closest to what the exercise of judgment, in art or in science.
