Potter Stewart test

Proper noun

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

Japanese Meaning

ポッター・スチュワート・テスト：物事が特定のカテゴリーに属するか否かを、直感的な判断に基づいて識別する非公式な基準やテスト。

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When deciding whether the film was obscene, the court relied on the Potter Stewart test.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その映画がわいせつかどうかを判断する際、裁判所は、あるものがそのカテゴリーに属すると直感的に感じられるかどうかという非公式の基準に頼った。

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

It may not be easy to give a precise, categorical, practical definition of "doing justice to the past," but the concept passes the Potter Stewart test on pornography — we recognize it when we see it or fail to see it, or at least are convinced that we do.

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