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Show " " Criterion. A criterion Is of an abstract nature and cannot. properly be applied to a person. It is a standard of Judging or a rule or test by which facts, principles and opinions are tried In forming a correct judgment A person could not serve as a criterion because of the variations va-riations in human conduct. The criterion cri-terion Is always something which he- . mains stable! thereby permitting other matters of a more or less uncertain nature na-ture to be tested by .comparison with It, as, for example, one might say, Purls Is a criterion of fashions. |