In your opinion, what is the difference between judgment & discernment?

Question:Discernment is simply a matter of perception. Judgement is a decision based on values and criteria. I ask a waitress to bring me a cup of coffee. I discern that she has brought it. I judge that her response time was acceptable. I take a sip. I discern that it is coffee. I judge that it is not very good coffee.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Discernment is simply a matter of perception. Judgement is a decision based on values and criteria. I ask a waitress to bring me a cup of coffee. I discern that she has brought it. I judge that her response time was acceptable. I take a sip. I discern that it is coffee. I judge that it is not very good coffee.

Judgment is an act. Discernment is a process.

While there is overlap, judgment is more active, discernment more receiving.

"Experience and Judgment," Edmund Husserl, is an excellent treatment of this ("experience" ~ discernment, or the gathering of impressions).

Of course, there are second-order, etc. levels: discernment building on prior, more naively impressionable discernings, etc. Kant described one such process as impressions --> ideas --> concepts. In such a feedforward, one level's impressions are variously "judged" to become a second level's discernings.

Kuhn noted that judgmental exclusivism in "discernment sieves" tends to ignore outlying data points, which often contain clues and keys to finer levels of wider theoretic; e.g., the perturbations of the orbit of Mercury, ignored by Newtonian physics, and included as key data in the Einsteinian refinement.

A similar process occurs in soul or emotional awareness; http://www.tiller.org is an example of a paradigmatic shift per noting and proving biofield intentionality effects on quantum systems ("Psychoenergetic Science").

Perhaps building on or surpassing this: Dr. Elizabeth Mayer's "Extraordinary Knowing" and Mark Prophet's "The Path of the Higher Self."

Discernment is understanding with possible approval whereas judgement is more like condemnation or disapproval.

To judge is to form an opinion, discernment would be the evidence observed to help form that opinion....? Now I'm confused.

Judgment is based on facts. Discernment is based on feelings.