self-consistent
Americannoun
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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
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
The main character is a snide demon with a vicious sense of humor, and the books lay out a mechanism for magic that is self-consistent and logical within its own world.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2014
Here was what Bell had been groping for, on and off since his student days: some quantitative means of distinguishing Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics from other coherent, self-consistent possibilities.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 30, 2012
Thus what he calls “logic” is an investigation of the nature of the universe, in so far as this can be inferred merely from the principle that the universe must be logically self-consistent.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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