self-consistent
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Origin of self-consistent
First recorded in 1675–85
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With this definition, both laws of thermodynamics remain valid, showing that the framework is self-consistent.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
“A moon is the simplest, most elegant and self-consistent hypothesis—that’s why we favor it.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 3, 2018
It is something like exploring a self-consistent field of mathematics, with its axioms and rules of logic that are not consistent with nature.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
But, most importantly, there’s no evidence to justify the leap from “something just passed through my peripheral vision” to a self-consistent and perpetuated belief in a being, myth, or religion.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2015
Moses' account is quite self-consistent, and the bishop's garbling of it is dishonest.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
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