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absolute judgment

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noun

  1. 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

But the impartiality of history demands a confession, less favorable to the colonists at large, and which must arrest a deliberate and absolute judgment against the ministers of the crown.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John

But there is only one means of escaping these consequences, which is to repudiate the principle, and recognize the judgment of the beautiful as an absolute judgment, and, as such, entirely different from sensation.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

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