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Definition of Inconsistency
1. Noun. The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time.
Generic synonyms: Contradictoriness
Derivative terms: Incompatible, Repugn
2. Noun. The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts.
Definition of Inconsistency
1. n. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
Definition of Inconsistency
1. Noun. The state of being inconsistent ¹
2. Noun. (logic) an incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inconsistency
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsistency
Literary usage of Inconsistency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Admitting the fact of the inconsistency, the utmost it can amount to, in the
character of an argument against the proposed ..."
2. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait ( Howe (1914)
"Nor does it seem to have occurred to any one prior to the introduction of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill that there was any inconsistency between the Missouri ..."
3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste COMTE, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"A brief notice of the logical inconsistency of the revolutionary doctrine ...
This inconsistency is more radical and inconsistency more manifest than in the ..."
4. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"... the system—Grand error of all Anti-Slavery effort—Law of particeps criminis —Daniel
O'Connell—Malum in se doctrine—inconsistency of those who hold ..."
5. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"But it may possibly arise from a somewhat different cause : namely, the inconsistency
inter se of several definite rules, or the intrinsic or ..."
6. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Leopold George Gordon Robbins, Melville Madison Bigelow (1893)
"П. — Admissible to reconcile inconsistency in Will. — If, how- ever, the context
of the will presents an obstacle to the construing Words mar be °^ *^e ..."
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