ABSTRACT
According to Cook Wilson the notion of judgment confuses knowledge and opinion. The assumption of judgment depends essentially on the fact of statement. The fact that the assumption of ‘judgment’ is intimately connected with statement can be seen in the history of logic. For historically speaking the word ‘judgment’ is a substitute for the word ‘proposition’ (which means the same as ‘statement’). It might be said that: ‘The given interpretation of Cook Wilson’s view of the origin of “judgment” is totally wrong; and it is extraordinary that it should ever have been put forward, because his real view is set out perfectly plainly by him in the place where he chiefly deals with “judgment”. This view is that the notion of “judgment” arises out of a false view of inference. A very important consequence for the province of logic follows from the fact that the notion of judgment is vicious, and this is clearly set out by Cook Wilson.
