predeterminable

Updated: May 20, 2025

How much honester would it be to say, that extreme cases are 'ipso nomine' not generalizable, therefore not the subjects of a law, which is the conclusion 'per genus singuli in genere inclusi'. Every extreme case must be judged by and for itself under all the peculiar circumstances. Now as these are not foreknowable, the case itself cannot be predeterminable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.