per se🔊

Without determination by or involvement of extraneous factors; by its very nature.

(colloquial, sometimes proscribed) In a true or literal sense; as one would expect from the name or description.

(philosophy) As the principle of its own determination and positing itself.

(law) Not leaving discretion to the judge to take into account additional factors that could rebut the judgment, deriving the qualification from the statute.

(philosophy) Positing itself and being a principle of its own determination.

(law) That does not leave discretion to the judge to take into account additional factors that could rebut the judgment, deriving the qualification from the statute.