This leads to dissonance and usually to a negative judgment.

He did not record though whether his negative judgment was on aesthetic or moral grounds.

And which of you doesn't, on seeing a house without any books or even bookshelves in it, make a negative judgment about the inhabitants?

To allow a subsequent plaintiff to use the tenth, negative judgment as collateral estoppel against the defendant may seem unjust.

The grounds for an affirmative or negative judgment seem equally balanced.