noun. A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. 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."

criterion of truth  external criterion of truth  formal criterion of truth  material criterion of truth  newtonian criterion  

crisis  critic  critical  criticize  

Algerian  Assyrian  Hanoverian  Hyperion  Iberian  

analysis  assessment  category  concept  consideration  

Procrustean law  acid test  adjudgment  antetype  antitype  

criteria