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As I've continued to reflect on this, I've realized that it admits oftwo of two important inferences. First, although I have for the most part had judging credibility in mind in thinking this, I now see that it also applies just as validly, mutatis mutandis, to judging appropriateness--or, for that matter, fittingness. The crucial point has to do with the criteria of judgment, not with what is being judged. Ifthe If the criteria are consuetudinary criteria only, the judgment, whatever it is about, is relatively less critical, whereas if the criteria are ultimate, the judgment is relatively more critical, again, regardless of what it is about.

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