Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being self-consistent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being self-consistent.
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Examples
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So, perhaps ultimately mathematical self-consistency that are metaphysics, that is string theory: the physics beyond ordinary, worldly physics is the only one possible.
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Tagged with Novikov self-consistency conjecture, paradoxes, time travel
The Novikov Self-Consistency Conjecture « Gerry Canavan 2008
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My personal attitude is that it is mathematical self-consistency.
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The self-consistency of the universe is evidence for intent and purpose – intelligent design, thus evidence for the existence of intelligent designer (s).
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There's nothing anyone out here on the internet can do about that, especially if it's already been preordained by accidental self-consistency.
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For the rest, Mr. O'Donnell's letter is a useful illustration of the departure from common sense and self-consistency that I was complaining of in reader-based theories of interpretation.
Inventing Games 2009
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It would seem that you think it rather obvious that the universe's existence and self-consistency provide evidence of its having purpose.
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It would seem that you think it rather obvious that the universe's existence and self-consistency provide evidence of its having purpose.
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We learn to hold the eyes of violence, to keep our vision steady, if we indeed remember that the foundation of law is where Solomon sought it, in the contemplation of God's faithful self-consistency, of the truth of what he has made and loves.
Archbishop preaches at 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter 2008
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We learn to hold the eyes of violence, to keep our vision steady, if we indeed remember that the foundation of law is where Solomon sought it, in the contemplation of God's faithful self-consistency, of the truth of what he has made and loves.
Archbishop preaches at 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter 2008
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