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Good Judgment

" No hard and fast rules for this operation of selecting and rejecting, or fixing upon the facts, can be given. It all comes back, as we say, to the good judgment, the good sense, of the one judging. " This sentence comes from the chapter "Judgment: interpretation of facts" from the book " How we think " by John Dewey . This is a wonderful book and this chapter is maybe the best thing ever written on judgment and how to develop it.  Here is another quote that in a wonderful way describes the conditions for intuition to emerge and how it relates to judgment: " Long brooding over conditions, intimate contact associated with keen interest, through absorption in a multiplicity of allied experiences, tend to bring about those judgments which we call intuitive; but they are true judgments because they are based on intelligent selection and estimation, with the solution of a problem as the controlling standard. Possession of this capacity makes t...

Books on my desk...

One of my piles of books on my desk at the moment. Some old, some new, some favorites. Learning never stops...