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This is perhaps the most important aspect of the theory of argumentation. The reason we make arguments is to have them judged. We should always argue with a judge in mind. The judge doesn’t have to be a specific person, and does not have to possess idiosyncrasies peculiar to one way of judging. The judge can be a conception of the person who is most qualified to judge an argument, not necessarily in terms of expertise, but rather, in terms of a fundamental fairness.

So important is the concept of judgment in argumentation that we will spend an entire chapter on it.