Vocabulary Word
Word: criteria
Definition: standards used in judging; CF. criterion
Definition: standards used in judging; CF. criterion
Sentences Containing 'criteria'
These sceptical topics, indeed, are only sufficient to prove, that the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on; but that we must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper _criteria_ of truth and falsehood.
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