universalisability

noun

The quality (as of a rule) of being able to be applied universally; that is, to any given situation with no exceptions.

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Meanings

noununiversalisability (uncountable)

alternative universalizability

  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe quality (as of a rule) of being able to be applied universally; that is, to any given situation with no exceptions.

    Some have thought that universalisability was the criterion of ethicalness.

    1964, Timothy L. S. Sprigge, “Definition of a Moral Judgment”, in Philosophy, volume 39, number 150, page 306

Origin

c. 1950 universalisable + -ity

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