Potter Stewart test

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The informal test of identifying something based on whether one intuitively feels it belongs to a certain category.

Word forms

Potter Stewart test

Etymology

After Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who said "I know it when I see it" in regard to hardcore pornography.

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