 Burge’s idea is that in executing this judgment, one “runs through” the very thought that the judgment is about. That is, judging (W) necessitates thinking the thought that water is wet—and thinking this thought is precisely what (W) contends. So the very act of judging (W) suffices to render the judgment true. It is in that sense that the judgment is self-fulfilling or self-verifying. Besides Burge, self-verifying judgments were touted around the same time by Davidson (1987; 1988) and Heil (1988; 1992), though others have subsequently embraced them as well (e.g., Falvey and Owens 1994, Gibbons 1996, Bar-On 2004, Parent 2007, 2017, chs. 3 and 7).