"Potter Stewart test" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "After Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who said \"I know it when I see it\" in regard to hardcore pornography.",
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          "text": "2001 Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations\nIt 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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          "text": "2007 American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation\nWhile I continue to believe more in the Potter Stewart test, I thing Professor Feldman is to be commended for trying to impose some order on the chaos of religion and government, and I am grateful to him for discussing these issues with me"
        },
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          "text": "2012 The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe\nFor example, astrology and phrenology were once considered sciences and only later were cast out as pseudoscientific, so they clearly at one time passed the Potter Stewart test."
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        "The informal test of identifying something based on whether one intuitively feels it belongs to a certain category."
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          "word": "Potter Stewart standard"
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          "text": "2001 Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations\nIt 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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          "text": "2007 American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation\nWhile I continue to believe more in the Potter Stewart test, I thing Professor Feldman is to be commended for trying to impose some order on the chaos of religion and government, and I am grateful to him for discussing these issues with me"
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          "text": "2012 The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe\nFor example, astrology and phrenology were once considered sciences and only later were cast out as pseudoscientific, so they clearly at one time passed the Potter Stewart test."
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      "word": "Potter Stewart standard"
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  "word": "Potter Stewart test"
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