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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine of criteria or standards of judgment. See criterion.

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  • Knowing and Being "(1854), it has come to be used currently instead of other terms, still sometimes met with, like applied logic, material or critical logic, critical or initial philosophy, etc. To the same part of philosophy the name criteriology is given by the authors of some Latin textbooks and by the Louvain School.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Matthew Kirby of The Continuum like to argue that, by the theological criteriology of Catholicism itself, the Catholic Church has never "infallibly" taught that OHCAC subsists in the Roman communion as an integral whole.

    The gnosticism of branch theory Mike L 2006

  • They have to show that the way they apply Catholic theological criteriology is more reliable, by Catholicism's own standards, then the way the Catholic Magisterium itself has been applying it.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Mike L 2006

  • They have to show that the way they apply Catholic theological criteriology is more reliable, by Catholicism's own standards, then the way the Catholic Magisterium itself has been applying it.

    The gnosticism of branch theory Mike L 2006

  • Matthew Kirby of The Continuum like to argue that, by the theological criteriology of Catholicism itself, the Catholic Church has never "infallibly" taught that OHCAC subsists in the Roman communion as an integral whole.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Mike L 2006

  • General metaphysics and cosmology, and in pyschology the subordinate treatises of criteriology and idealogy are beyond their scope.

    The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart

  • So vigorous indeed has been the growth of psychology that each of its offshoots is developing in its own way: such is the case with criteriology, aesthetics, didactics, pedagogy, and the numerous ramifications of applied psychology.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • In psychology this phenomenon has been remarkable: criteriology, or epistemology (the study of the certitude of knowledge) has developed into a special study.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • The justification of this assumption must be furnished by other branches of philosophy, e.g. criteriology and general metaphysics.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Surely both logic and criteriology imply that we know something more about such judgments than merely that they are different.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

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