Perfection

State of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence

For other uses, see Perfection (disambiguation).

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Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence.

The term designates a range of diverse, if often kindred, concepts used in a variety of fields.

## See also

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* Christian perfection
* Perfect competition
* Perfect fifth
* Perfect flower (bisexual flower)
* Perfect fourth
* Perfect pitch
* Perfection (law)
* Perfectionism (philosophy)
* Perfectionism (psychology)
* Three perfections (Chinese art)

## Notes

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## References

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## Sources

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* Władysław Tatarkiewicz, O doskonałości (On Perfection), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1976.
* An English translation of Tatarkiewicz's book (On Perfection), by Christopher Kasparek, was serialized in Dialectics and Humanism: the Polish Philosophical Quarterly, vol. VI, no. 4 (autumn 1979), pp. 5–10; vol. VII, no. 1 (winter 1980), pp. 77–80; vol. VII, no. 2 (spring 1980), pp. 137–39; vol. VII, no. 3 (summer 1980), pp. 117–24; vol. VII, no. 4 (autumn 1980), pp. 145–53; vol. VIII, no. 1 (winter 1981), pp. 187–92; and vol. VIII, no. 2 (spring 1981), pp. 11–12.

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Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Perfectionism in Moral and Political Philosophy". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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