Judgment and Evaluation

Roles: judge, subject, criterion, evidence, verdict, standard, assessment

The process of forming considered opinions about the worth, quality, or character of persons, actions, or artifacts. As a source domain, judgment foregrounds the distinction between surface signals and underlying substance, the criteria by which assessments are made, and the asymmetry between the evaluator and the evaluated. Structurally productive because it encodes both the standards applied and the evidence admitted, making visible the often implicit rules by which we decide what counts.