logical consistency
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflogicalandconsistency
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logical
adjective
uk/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
using ...
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consistency
noun
uk/kənˈsɪs.tən.si/us/kənˈsɪs.tən.si/
the physical nature of a substance, especially a thick liquid, for example by being thick or thin, smooth or ...
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(Definition oflogicalandconsistencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In contrast, the ethos of science depends on evaluation that is fact-based and reliant onlogicalconsistency.
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We can, however, give general conditions ensuringlogicalconsistency.
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Therefore, forlogicalconsistencyalso, we will look for sufficient conditions as general as possible.
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Thus, in this case,logicalconsistencydoes not directly follow from normalisation.
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It occludes the distinction between certainty (the mode of relatedness of his surfaces -logicalconsistency; complexity) and truth (pertaining to the nature of reality; richness).
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Nevertheless, they are propositions: that is what makes them subject to tests oflogicalconsistency.
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Complementary to these low-level requirements,logicalconsistencyamongst context items is often a required feature of higher levels of context abstraction.
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Neither the conservatives themselves nor the historians who describe them have been able to marshal the three ideological tendencies intologicalconsistency.
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Second, parents are sensitive to thelogicalconsistencyof their answers to a series of questions.
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In our paper we have not addressed the problem oflogicalconsistency, but we believe that the strong normalization proof is a step towards it.
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Once this problem solved, there are crucial meta-theoretical properties to be studied: normalization, confluence andlogicalconsistency.
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Logicalconsistencyis not critical, however, for the success of their project.
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There was a certainlogicalconsistencybetween the avoidance of painful punishments in the secular sphere and their adoption in religion.
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For there is more than one, despite the book's evident investment in the ideal oflogicalconsistency.
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It is, of course, important that we should evaluate thelogicalconsistencyof political programmes and actions, but a mere ' marks out of ten ' approach is not enough.
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I now wish to show that with regard tologicalconsistency, it is the immaterialist metaphysic which is incompatible with classical theism, and indeed, which threatens to be internally incoherent.
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This viewpoint has intuitive appeal and considerable empirical support, but there remain questions about the generality of momentum effects and also aboutlogicalconsistencyin its interpretation.
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Logicalconsistencydemands, of course, that all such sentences be treated in the same way, so it makes most sense to characterize this silly sentence as true, though vacuously so.
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I found that there was littlelogicalconsistencyabout it.
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I agree that there is a certainlogicalconsistencyin that.
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