Capítulo 22. Chapter XXII.—Of The Expression ‟I Suspend Judgement”
[1.22.196] The phrase ‟I suspend judgement”[99] we adopt in place of ‟I am unable to say which of the objects presented I ought to believe and which I ought to disbelieve,” indicating that the objects appear to us equal as regards credibility and incredibility. As to whether they are equal we make no positive assertion; but what we state is what appears to us in regard to them at the time of observation. And the term ‟suspension” is derived from the fact of the mind being held up or ‟suspended” so that it neither affirms nor denies anything owing to the equipollence of the matters in question.