定てい言げん的てき判はん断だん

noun

categorical judgment

Rare philosophical term, used in logic and epistemology to refer to a judgment that asserts something unconditionally, without hypothetical or disjunctive qualification.

• カント哲てつ学がくでは、定てい言げん的てき判はん断だんは仮か言げん的てき判はん断だんや選せん言げん的てき判はん断だんと区く別べつされる。

  In Kantian philosophy, categorical judgments are distinguished from hypothetical and disjunctive judgments.