What do you think and what does Tompkins mean when she says, “My problem presupposed that I couldn’t judge because I didn’t know what the facts were.  All I had, or could have, was a series of different perspectives, and so nothing that would count as an authoritative source on which moral judgments could be based.  But, as I have just shown, I did judge, and that is because, as I now think, I did have some facts.”  Elaborate on your response.
 Jane Tompkins believes that in order to make a moral judgment about something, you have to know the facts.  When she says that statement, I believe that she is trying to say that she made a judgment and she thought she had no facts to support her judgment.  Because like she said in order to make a moral judgment you have to have some facts to support that judgment.  So after she made that judgment she realized that her judgment was based totally on her perspectives.  She is trying to say that her judgment had no authoritative source on which her moral judgment could be based.  But then she realizes that her judgment was actually based on some facts.  If we interpret this phrase that we find in Jane Tompkins writing we can see that our judgment should be based on authoritative sources, and not our perspectives.  After she tells her philosophy she then goes on and gives an example from her own life.  She shows how she judged and at the time she did, she wasn’t thinking about the facts, and yet she later realizes that she actually did have facts to support her judgment.  Her main point through out this saying is to be able to support your judgments with real authoritative sources.