judgmentare

Judgmentare is a neologism used in some contemporary discussions of judgment and decision-making. It designates both a practice and a theoretical framework concerned with how judgments are formed, justified, and communicated. The term is not widely standardized in mainstream dictionaries or philosophy, but it appears in scholarly articles as a way to foreground the procedures and norms underpinning evaluative conclusions.

The word is formed from the concept of judgment with a Latin-inspired suffix to denote action or process; in practice, judgmentare emphasizes deliberative transparency, traceability of reasons, and accountability of the judge or system producing the judgment. As a concept, judgmentare can function as a descriptive description of how experts reason in legal, ethical, or scientific contexts, or as an aspirational standard for designing decision-making processes that can be inspected and questioned.

Applications include legal reasoning where justifications for holdings must be explicit; ethical evaluation where normative arguments are laid out; and artificial intelligence or machine learning, where judgmentare calls for explainable and auditable decisions. Critics argue that the term is vague and overlaps with established notions of rationale, justification, and decision theory. Proponents respond that it helps clarify the procedural dimensions of judgment, separating content from the manner of its presentation.

See also: judgment (law), judgment (philosophy), decision making, epistemology, explainable AI.