universalisability

English

Alternative forms

• universalizability

Etymology

c. 1950 universalisable +‎ -ity

Noun

universalisability (uncountable)

1. (chiefly philosophy) The quality (as of a rule) of being able to be applied universally; that is, to any given situation with no exceptions.
   • 1964, Timothy L. S. Sprigge, "Definition of a Moral Judgment," Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 150, p. 306:

     Some have thought that universalisability was the criterion of ethicalness.