of our thoughts as are momentarily important for us. Judg-
ment is, then, in its most explicit forms, undoubtedly a pro-
cess in which we synthesise concepts in the course of noting
and asserting relations. Yet the concepts which we thus unite
are with equal certainty already elements of our stock of
knowledge, and so we may seem to have made no gain by the
judgment, much less to have added a new idea to some old
idea. But the gain is often very real, because the synthesis
may bring out relations of which previously we were not
clearly cognisant. From this point of view judgment is not
so much a matter of creating wholly now mental material as
it is a matter of ordering and organizing our mental equip-
ment in the most efficient possible manner.

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