Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving as a basis for evaluation.
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- adjective Which is based on, pertains to, or constitutes
criteria .
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- adjective serving as a basis for evaluation
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Examples
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Individuals he talked of the satisfaction of certain conditions as being criterial for the ascription of some disputed claims, and justified that by transcendental arguments.
Peter Frederick Strawson Snowdon, Paul 2009
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He calls such intentions directing intentions and then says that he has come to "regard the directing intention, at least in the case of perceptual demonstratives, as criterial, and to regard the demonstration as a mere externalization of this inner intention." (1989b, p. 582)
Again 2009
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The constitution was very very very very very clear on the criterial for his removal from office though not the ceremonial mechanism, i.e., impeachment
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Honduran Political Crisis Over? 2009
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The constitution was very very very very very clear on the criterial for his removal from office
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Honduran Political Crisis Over? 2009
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The constitution was very very very very very clear on the criterial for his removal from office though not the ceremonial mechanism, i.e., impeachment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Honduran Political Crisis Over? 2009
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The theory supposes that, while different people can possess some different beliefs about race, they share certain criterial beliefs and these serve to define the concept.
Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism Warnke, Georgia 2008
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Suppose we loosen the theory so that race has only to satisfy a good number of our criterial beliefs.
Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism Warnke, Georgia 2008
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Yet, as Appiah insists, there is no set of criterial beliefs that satisfies this condition in the case of race.
Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism Warnke, Georgia 2008
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The semantic sting argument is a claim that Hart applies criterial semantics generally to legal (and, incidentally, jurisprudential) concepts, in a way that makes real disagreement about the law impossible.
Law and Language Endicott, Timothy 2008
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A strict ideational theory requires that all the criterial beliefs be satisfied in the correct application of the concept.
Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism Warnke, Georgia 2008
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