The Ontological Status of Judgement: Judgement as Meaning-Making and the Formal Phenomenalization of Being

This paper aims to formalize and explore the philosophical implications of a central tenet within Judgemental Philosophy (JP): that judgement is essentially synonymous with the process of meaning-making, and this process, in turn, is identical to the formal phenomenalization of being—how being becomes meaningfully actualized for a judging subject. We argue that the dynamic operation of the Judgemental Triad (JT)—Constructivity (C1), Coherence (C2), and Resonance (R), as driven by the Resonance Drive (RD) from the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF)—constitutes this tripartite identity. By establishing judgement not merely as an epistemological act but as a fundamental ontological process through which a meaningful reality comes into being for us (excluding the Kantian "thing-in-itself"), this paper bridges the traditional divide between epistemology and ontology. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this JP framework exhibits profound structural equivalencies with Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, particularly his account of how "actual occasions" achieve definiteness through "concrescence" and "prehensions." This comparative analysis suggests that both philosophies, despite differing terminologies and primary focuses, may be describing the same fundamental dynamic of reality's formal phenomenalization. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of this unified perspective for understanding human subjectivity, creativity, temporality, and the limits of judgement (e.g., "the unjudgeable ontic"), proposing that JP offers a robust, process-oriented ontology grounded in the structural conditions of meaningful experience.