According to a classical view, suspension of judgement is, like belief and disbelief, a cognitive state. However, as some authors (Crawford 2022; Lord 2020; McGrath 2021a, 2021b; Sosa 2019, 2021) have pointed out, to suspend judgement is also to perform a certain mental action. The main goal of this article is to defend a precise account of the action that we take when we suspend our judgement: the Preventing Account. The Preventing Account has both the advantage of (i) accounting for familiar situations in which subjects suspend judgements and (ii) of explaining the tendency, which is widespread in the philosophical tradition (from sceptics to pragmatists), to consider suspension of judgement as something that is (at least, to some degree) difficult to achieve.

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当我们暂停判断时，我们该怎么办？


根据经典观点，判断的悬置就像相信和不相信一样，是一种认知状态。然而，正如一些作者(Crawford 2022; Lord 2020; McGrath 2021a, 2021b; Sosa 2019, 2021)所指出的，暂停判断也是执行某种心理活动。本文的主要目标是捍卫我们在暂停判断时所采取的行动的精确说明：预防帐户。预防性解释具有以下优点：（i）解释了主体暂停判断的常见情况；（ii）解释了哲学传统（从怀疑论者到实用主义者）中普遍存在的趋势，即将判断暂停视为某种事物。这是（至少在某种程度上）很难实现的。