'A judgement is personal and spontaneous or it is nothing. But to say that it is 'spontaneous' is not to say that it may be prompted from another; and to say that it is 'personal' is not to say that it means merely that. The form of the judgement is This is so, isn't it?', the question asking for conformation that the thing is so, but prepared for an answer of the form, 'Yes, but-' the 'but' standing for corrections, refinements, precisions, amplifications. The judgements...may be 'value-judgements' but they are in intention universal.'
(Christian Wenzel, Kant finds nothing Ugly?, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol39, No.4, oct 1999;F.R. Leavis, 'Thought, Language and Objectivity', in The Living Principle)
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