The discernment and deployment of deception and indirection required in courtship prepared men for courtly existence as a whole.
Such progress involves an improvement of vision (where vision is a metaphor for any kind of discernment of the world).
The consultant brought this plus respect for the consultee's "discernment" of the client's situation and the consultee's "familiarity" with adoptions law and practice.
It can be applied only if the evidence is independent and refers to the same frame of discernment.
Within this framework, of course, the judgment of a person's moral goodness depends on the discernment of what is characteristically human.
Moral progress is possible, but advance will always be piecemeal and constrained by the moral pilgrim's prior (unavoidably flawed) quality of discernment.
To observe, openly, without judgement, and then to swing capriciously from observation to discernment, and not to be bothered by the difference.
Aiding discernment of the type of situation at hand, the proverb can change the hearer's reaction to it.
