Word Finder - inconsistency

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The state of being inconsistent.

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An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.

One more inconsistency Dean didn't need.

To deal with inconsistency in the uncertain class hierarchy a default reasoning approach was used.

The inconsistency of his attitude is shown by his use, side by side, of the contemptuous expressions barbarus (applied to the Romans) and pergraecari (applied to the Greeks).

He has knowledge of the world, the suppleness of a courtier, Spanish vivacity, and the ingenium amoenum attributed to him by Tacitus, the fruit of which is sometimes seen in the "honeyed phrases" mentioned by Petronius - pure aspirations combined with inconsistency of purpose - the inconsistency of one who tries to make the best of two worlds, the ideal inner life and the successful real life in the atmosphere of a most corrupt court.

Berkeley saw the inconsistency of this position, and, in asserting that all we perceive and all we know is nothing but ideas in " mind, spirit, soul, or myself," has the merit of having made, as Paulsen remarks, " epistemological idealism the basis of metaphysical idealism."

For I was 10th at first dash to tell you that I had lately received a letter from him so surprising to me for the inconsistency of every part of it, as to be put into great disorder by it, from the concernment I have for him, lest it should arise from that which of all mankind I should least dread from him and most lament for - I mean a discomposure in head, or mind, or both.

At length Fox, in seconding a motion for confining the debate to its proper subject, burst into the fatal question beyond the subject, taxing Burke with inconsistency, and taunting him with having forgotten that ever-admirable saying of his own about the insurgent colonists, that he did not know how to draw an indictment against a whole nation.

The tableau method provides us with of way of testing for inconsistency.

Appealing to ' inconsistency ' as justification for an unprincipled theoretical bloc signifies giving oneself bad credentials as a Marxist.

If one parent is more permissive than the other, the child has a hard time recognizing behavioral limits and will use the inconsistency to their advantage.

Madonna - Inconsistency is the Material Girl's problem.

When an inconsistency is present, you'll notice it as a wave in the light's reflection, or a dead spot where the light source doesn't reflect off of the lens the same way or with the same sheen in one spot on the lens as another.

Children with developmental language disorder have an inconsistency between their cognitive functioning (nonverbal or performance measures) and their language skills.

It's because of this inconsistency that it takes a lot of patience to train a Pisces pet.

Still, some tattoo inks will sometimes discolor faster, have inconsistency in product quality, and on occasion cause skin reactions.

In fact, he was only consistent in his inconsistency (semper in omnibus varies).

A second inconsistency was presented when he was compelled by the researches of Dumas to admit Avogadro's hypothesis; but here he would only accept it for the elementary gases, and denied it for other substances.

However we may explain the inconsistency, we are precluded by the moral earnestness of the writer from assuming the visions to be pure inventions.

Tertullian exhausted the resources of dialectic in the endeavour to define and vindicate the relation of the spiritualists to the "psychic" Christians; but no one will say he has succeeded in clearing the Montanistic position of its fundamental inconsistency.

But even if we date the rise of heresies in the reign of Domitian instead of Trajan, 2 the attributing of this epistle against 2 O n this point (date of the outbreak of heresy) there is some inconsistency in the reported fragments of Hegesippus.

When baffled in minor objects he gave way with a goodnatured flexibility which brought upon him at times charges of inconsistency.

Aneau pointed out the obvious inconsistency of inculcating imitation of the ancients and depreciating native poets in a work professing to be a defence of the French language.

To some extent Berkeley removed this radical inconsistency, but in his philosophical work it may be said with safety there are two distinct aspects, and while it holds of Locke on the one hand, it stretches forward to Kantianism on the other.

Primitive religion, however, resorts to either way of approach so indifferently as to prove that there is little or no awareness of an inconsistency of attitude.

Tulsi, as a Smarta Vaishnava and a Brahman, venerates the whole Hindu pantheon, and is especially careful to give Siva or Mahadeva, the special deity of the Brahmans, his due, and to point out that there is no inconsistency between devotion to Rama and attachment to Siva (Ramayan, Lankakand, Doha 3).

Sidney's position on meter, like many writers, suffers from inconsistency for which he cannot be held culpable.

The inconsistency produces tension which acts to motivate the individual to restore harmony within the system.

Programming Errors The program has detected an inconsistency either in the code, or in the command file.

Interaction has an adaptive mediating role, helping students to recognize and resolve inconsistency.

Even so, and despite the perceived inconsistency, they are still in eighth place just a point behind the play offs.

We have to keep highlighting the fundamental inconsistency in the US policy.

They encourage data inconsistency, prevent integration and stand in the way of a world-class EHS management strategy.

Part II Comments were made on the apparent inconsistency of marking in the Physical Lab between different members of staff.

Such blatant inconsistency is quite revealing to say the least.

Any slight inconsistency in your answers may mean you will not be believed about the extent of your condition.

She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct.

The inconsistency between the stated aims of the incapacity and the waiver applied in some cases undermined the rationality and logic of the measure.

At the same time he seems unconscious of any inconsistency between the doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible as usually received and his principles of hermeneutics.

Though on more than one occasion personal rancour against the men of the Moderate Left prevented the Right from following Sellas advice and regaining, by timely coalition with cognate parliamentary elements, a portion of its former influence, the bulk of the party, with singular inconsistency, drew nearer and nearer to the Liberal cabinets.

Mansel charged Kant with inconsistency in this preferential treatment of the moral consciousness; all our knowledge, even in moral things, was " relative " and was " regulative."' But, whether consistent or inconsistent, Kant was deliberate in differentiating between the ethical and the theoretic knowledge of man.

Defoe maintained that the dissenters who attended the services of the English Church on particular occasions to qualify themselves for office were guilty of inconsistency.

If a real life psychic demonstrated the same inconsistency, it would be time to seek a second opinion.

I had some feedback from some writers there was inconsistency with how articles were being rejected, and I heard about some concerns about inappropriate rejections.

But the inconsistency has in part been explained by Gunkel, who has rightly emphasized that the writer did not freely invent his materials but derived them in the main from tradition, as he held that these mysterious traditions of his people were, if rightly expounded, forecasts of the time to come.

The inconsistency of selling funeral requisites in the temple of Libitina, seeing that she is identified with Venus, is explained by him as indicating that one and the same goddess presides over birth and death; or the association of such things with the goddess of love and pleasure is intended to show that death is not a calamity, but rather a consummation to be desired.

This inconsistency, though startling at first sight, is probably more apparent than real.

But there is no inconsistency between the two verses.

In particular, Plato taxes Parmenides with his inconsistency in attributing (as he certainly did) to the fundamental unity extension and sphericity, so that "the worshipped dv is after all a pitiful j.) " (W.

In 1874, when Gladstone published his pamphlet on The Vatican Decrees, Lord Acton wrote during November and December a series of remarkable letters to The Times, illustrating Gladstone's main theme by numerous historical examples of papal inconsistency, in a way which must have been bitter enough to the ultramontane party, but demurring nevertheless to Gladstone's conclusion and insisting that the Church itself was better than its premisses implied.

While he pointed out to the dissenters the scandalous inconsistency of their playing fast and loose with sacred things, yet he denounced the impropriety of requiring tests at all.