criterionwhether

Criterionwhether is a coined term used to describe a meta-criterion that determines whether a given proposition, claim, or assertion satisfies a predefined set of acceptance criteria. The formulation emphasizes a yes/no outcome of evaluation, framing truth or adequacy as a dependency on criteria rather than solely on intrinsic content.

Formalization can represent criterionwhether as a boolean function C(P, K), where P is a proposition and K is a set of criteria. C(P, K) = true if P meets every criterion in K (or a specified subset), and false otherwise. In variants with qualitative assessment, criteria may be weighted, and C(P, K) returns a value in [0, 1] representing the degree to which P qualifies. This makes criterionwhether flexible for contexts that require graded acceptance rather than a binary verdict.

Applications of criterionwhether span multiple fields. In logic and epistemology, it can model truth-conditions conditioned by standards of justification. In artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, a decision system might use criterionwhether to decide whether to accept a hypothesis given evidence, sources, and internal consistency checks. In law, policy, and research governance, it expresses whether a claim passes defined evidentiary or methodological standards.

Example: P = “The dataset is complete.” With K = {data integrity, completeness, provenance}, C(P, K) yields true if all criteria are satisfied; false if any are not. Such a construct clarifies how acceptance decisions are tied to explicit criteria rather than to intuition alone.

Relation to related concepts includes its connection to truth-conditions, evaluation functions, and decision rules. It is distinct from conventional logical connectives and remains most meaningful when the criteria themselves are well specified to avoid ambiguity.