Potter Stewart test

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  1. The informal test of identifying something based on whether one intuitively feels it belongs to a certain category.
    — 2001 Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations It may not be easy to give a precise, categorical, practical definition of "doing justice to the past," but the concept passes the Potter Stewart test on pornography — we recognize it when we see it or fail to see it, or at least are convinced that we do.

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After Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who said "I know it when I see it" in regard to hardcore pornography.
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