Context: The value judgement definition of literature considers it to exclusively include writing that possesses high quality or distinction, forming part of the so-called belles-lettres ('fine writing') tradition. This is the definition used in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) when it classifies literature as "the best expression of the best thought reduced to writing." However, this has the result that there is no objective definition of what constitutes "literature"; anything can be literature, and anything which is universally regarded as literature has the potential to be excluded, since value-judgements can change over time.

Question: What is the main component of the qualitative judgment definition of literature?
Answer: writing that possesses high quality or distinction

Question: What French term for value-based literature literally translates as "fine writing?"
Answer: belles-lettres

Question: Encyclopedia Britannica defined literature in its 1911 editions how?
Answer: "the best expression of the best thought reduced to writing."

Question: What effect does the evolving definition of literature have?
Answer: anything which is universally regarded as literature has the potential to be excluded

Question: What is the meaning of the Spanish term, "belles-lettres?"
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How does the Encyclopedia Britannia Tenth Edition classify literature?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Value-decisions can do what over time?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What years does the Encyclopedia Brittanica Tenth Edition cover?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What forms part of the so-called belles-lettres law?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What Italian term means "fine writing?"
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How does the 1901 Encyclopedia Britannica define "literature?"
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In what way can value-judgments not change?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which edition of the World Book Encyclopedia uses the value judgment definition of "literature?"
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When was the definition of value judgement first used?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What tradition does the value judgement definition form all of?
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Question: What year was the Eleventh Edition of Encyclopedia Britannica written?
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Question: How often do value-judgments change?
Answer: Unanswerable