All 4 Uses of
criteria
in
The Magic Mountain
- On the contrary, it was better out there, incomparably more comfortable, by any criterion the most agreeable state of affairs that Hans Castorp could remember ever having tried out—a judgment from which he could not be dissuaded by some writer and Carbonaro who made malicious remarks with snide connotations about the "horizontal life."†
Chpt 4.10criterion = a reference point against which things can be evaluated
- He is the measure of all things and his salvation is the criterion of truth.†
Chpt 6.3
- Its salvation, its dignity, its power is the criterion of morality.†
Chpt 6.3
- In the modern confrontation with bourgeois-capitalist rot, the world's proletariat embodies the humanity and criteria of the City of God.†
Chpt 6.3 *
Definition:
reference points against which things can be evaluated
Note that "criterion" is the singular form. Though not seen as often as "criteria", it is reasonably common. Today, "criterions" is acceptable in place of "criteria", though seldom used.