absolute judgment

British

noun

psychol any judgment about a single stimulus, e.g. about the value of one of its properties or about whether it is present or absent Compare comparative judgment

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Other times, we see only complexity and nuance and the impossibility of absolute judgment.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021

I am not ready to cast an absolute judgment on Narendra Modi.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2019

The evidence is not strong enough, and probably never can be, to allow an absolute judgment either way.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the endeavor of one party, or of one set, to set itself up in absolute judgment over the opinions, rights, persons, liberties and hearts of other men.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.

But such an answer cannot satisfy the mind which seeks to reach a definite pronouncement, an absolute judgment.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

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