universalizableadj.

1906 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 3 122 The consciousness that experience ought to be universalizable, and in this sense social, is the consciousness of consistency as an ideal which includes one's entire personal activity.

1954 E. L. King tr. A. Castro Struct. Spanish Hist. ii. 39 The insistence on conceiving of history only as universalizable ‘culture’ leaves out these half-done portraits.

1977 P. Baelz Ethics & Belief ii. 18 Reasons are impersonal, or inter-personal. They are logically impartial, or universalizable.

1996 J. E. Hare Moral Gap i. i. 36 Not all moral judgements are universalizable.

1952 A. E. Duncan-Jones Butler's Moral Philos. viii. 173 What we are calling the universalisability of his attitude consists in his being disposed..to respond in an equivalent way to people and situations of a given kind, should he come to consider them.

2002 Rev. Metaphysics (Nexis) 55 638 What distinguishes moral statements from imperatives more generally is their universalizability and internal motivational force.

1963 R. M. Hare Freedom & Reason vi. 91 This argument would break down if ‘ought’ were not being used both universalizably and prescriptively.

1987 Mind 96 78 We can concede that the requirement to prescribe universalizably might well drive him towards utilitarianism.