Ontology and Operability of Pre-Judgment Structure — Resetting the Unit of Reproducibility in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Human Sciences —

In the humanities, social sciences, and human sciences, it is often assumed that reproducibility, as required in natural sciences, cannot be established because their objects involve human action, judgment, meaning, and value. As a result, knowledge in these fields is frequently regarded as unshareable in a strict sense. However, in everyday and institutional contexts, people continuously share judgments, coordinate behavior, and demand explanations for the grounds of those judgments. This suggests that judgment operates with some form of shareable structure. This paper does not attempt to apply natural-scientific reproducibility to these fields. Instead, it redefines the unit of reproducibility by examining what elements are fixed prior to judgment and how those elements are shared among third parties.