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n. A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based. See Synonyms at standard.

n. A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

n. A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.

n. A standard of judgment or criticism; a law, rule, or principle regarded as universally valid for the class of cases under consideration, by which matters of fact, propositions, opinions, or conduct can be tested in order to discover their truth or falsehood, or by which a correct judgment may be formed.

n. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

n. the ideal in terms of which something can be judged

"If we try to apply Dedekind's definition as a criterion for determining whether a given set is infinite by establishing a 1-1 correspondence between two inductive rules for generating “infinite extensions,” one of which is an “extensional subset” of the other, we can't possibly learn anything we didn't already know when we applied the ˜criterion™ to two inductive rules."

external criterion of truth    formal criterion of truth    criterion of truth    newtonian criterion    material criterion of truth    peirce's criterion   

critical    criticize    crisis    critic   

criteria   

measure    standard    rule   

Algerian    Assyrian    Hanoverian    Hyperion    Iberian    Illyrian    Liberian    Nigerian    Presbyterian    Shakespearean   

requirement    guideline    parameter    definition    objective    concept    assessment    methodology    indicator    strategy