In the book On Democracy, Robert Dahl details two types of judgements, value judgements and empirical judgement, which are completely different from each other. Basically, an empirical judgement is built upon facts and truths, whereas a value judgement is based on opinions and personal belief. An empirical judgement can be used to prove something or rate something based on facts, which is very powerful because you can’t deny the facts. While a value judgement doesn’t have this same power, it has a different type of power, because it is based on opinions. When you judge something or someone based off of opinions and facts, you will sometimes have the chance to be a powerful influence. If you a judging something based on opinions, then your value
