age of judgement

A form of age of judgment — The age at which a child is presumed to be able to judge the difference between right and wrong

Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of age of judgment.
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    I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order … And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation. Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables … Western reason had entered the 'age of judgement'.

    1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN)
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