Word Finder - valid

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Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.

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I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer.

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Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.

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A valid format for the date is MM/DD/YY.

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Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.

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Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.

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Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.

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An argument is valid if and only if the set consisting of both (1) all of its premises and (2) the contradictory of its conclusion is inconsistent.

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Effective.

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He is a priest now: although his ordination was contrary to the law of the church, it was still valid.

The chapter title poses a valid question.

This formula is valid between speeds of 37 and 77 m.

Though I believe it is no longer considered valid, yet I have kept it ever since as one of my treasures.

This with the extracts from her letters, scattered through the report, is the first valid source of information about Helen Keller.

Come on, I think you've seen enough to convince yourself that I have a valid point when I say it's dangerous to wander in the woods.

On the other hand, they are valid evidence for whatever is necessary to their own explanation, i.e.

But there were valid objections to either course.

On the critical side this teaching is now admittedly valid against the older empiricism, and the cogency of the reasoning by which his constructive theory is supported is generally recognized.

With such salts alone is a valid comparison possible.

This reveals the empiricist temper, and points to an attempted empiricist solution of great problems. Butler holds that more ambitious philosophies are valid, but he shrinks from their use.

An unbaptized person is also incapable of valid ordination.

If, on the other hand, succession through females was valid, he could trace his descent through his mother from Henry III.

It is not here possible to do more than indicate what appear to be the valid elements in these two conflicting interpretations of the requirements of a true idealism.

Or is it simply a reiteration of his sceptical contrast between phenomena and noumena, and of his confinement of (valid) knowledge to the former?

The sittings of both houses are public, and an absolute majority of the members must be present to make a sitting valid.

Reason - under conditions of sensation - created the world of (valid) knowledge; Reason created the practical world of duty.

In other words; whenever philosophy g teaches a doctrine of the Absolute, and regards such doctrine as valid and certain, we have the essence of an ontological or a priori argument.

He became very expensive in his habits, fell at times into difficulties, and had to urge his valid claims upon the marquis's attention.

Subsequently, on the 23rd of May, their marriage was declared valid and that with Catherine null, and in June Anne was crowned with great state in Westminster Abbey.

He argues against the setting up of classic art as an unchanging type, valid for all peoples and all times.

Whenever the name of the three-one God is used, the sacrament is declared valid by whomsoever it may be performed.

Parker's consecration was, however, only made legally valid by the plentitude of the royal supremacy; for the Edwardine Ordinal, which was used, had been repealed by Mary and not re-enacted by the parliament of 1559 Parker owes his fame to circumstances rather than to personal qualifications.

Is a simoniacal ordination valid ?

This is probably apocryphal, but the principle is valid.

Arguments on both sides of the issue bring up valid points both for and against the use of solar power to combat global warming.

At that time, remove the program from your computer or purchase a valid serial number (license) from Adobe.

Doctor Aaron Temkin Beck developed the Beck Anxiety Inventory to fill the need for a test that would measure anxiety levels with reliable and valid results.

On the 11th of October Italy communicated article 7 of the treaty of Uccialli to the European powers, interpreting it as a valid title to an Italian protectorate over Abyssinia.

Five days later he pronounced the marriage between Henry and Anne - which had been secretly celebrated about the 25th of January 1533 - to be valid.

An award may, however, be set aside where the arbitrator has misconducted himself (an arbitrator may also be removed by the court on the ground of misconduct), or where it is ultra vires, or lacks any of the other requisites - above mentioned - of a valid award, or where the arbitrator has been wilfully deceived by one of the parties, or some such state of things exists.

Scots law as to the requisites of a valid award is practically identical with the law of England.

It may be admitted that, in many cases, the distinction between Ultramontanism and Catholicism cannot be clearly traced; and it is impossible to draw a sharp line of severance between the two, which could be absolutely valid under all circumstances and in relation to all questions.

The only valid reason for preferring women to attend men rather than members of their own sex is the difficulty of obtaining a supply of equally well qualified and satisfactory male nurses.

However, it was valid according to American law, and Pope Pius VII.

The exemption is not valid against a debt created for the purchase money, or against taxes levied on the property, or against mechanics' or labourers' liens for work done or material furnished for improvements, or against a mortgage acknowledged by both husband and wife.

All that is certainly known about the antiquity of the sieu is that they were well established in the 3rd century B.C. Their initial point at the autumnal equinox marked by Kio (Spica Virginis) suits a still later date; and there is no valid evidence that the modern series resulted from the rectification of an older superannuated arrangement, analogous to the Krittika sequence of nakshatras.

Foreign readers of Maine have perhaps understood even better than English ones that he is not the propounder of a system but the pioneer of a method, and that detailed criticism, profitable as it may be and necessary as in time it must be, will not leave the method itself less valid or diminish the worth of the master's lessons in its use.

Of 177 species valid in the family Giesbrecht and Schmeil assign 67 to Diaptomus.

Biblical criticism is part of a wider critical movement, but it is noticeable how, from stage to stage, Biblical scholars adopted the various critical methods which as applied to other literatures have been proved valid, rather than themselves initiated them.

Still less is there any valid argument against Philemon.

Of these arguments, then, the first, so far as it is valid, is an argument for the summer, not of A.D.

County certificates issued by the County Board of Examiners are of three classes, valid for one, two and four years respectively.

But, now a century of respite had been granted, the Chaldaeans were at the gates, and there was no sign of valid national repentance.

Henceforth revelation is not a word to the nation spoken through an individual, but a word spoken to one which is equally valid for every one who receives it with like faith.

Holland drove them out in 1816, and, by giving them thus a valid excuse for aiding the Belgian revolution of 1830, secured them the strong position they have ever since held in Belgium; but they have succeeded in returning to Holland.

The Venetians returned, and order was soon restored, but the republic was meditating the seizure of Cyprus, although it had no valid title whatever, and after the death of Caterina's child in 1474 it was Venice which really governed the island.

According to Kant, the ob j ective is valid for all consciousnesses; according to Fichte it is valid for one consciousness.

Thus the complete metaphysical idealism of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre formed out of the incomplete metaphysical idealism of Kant's Kritik, is the theor y on its epistemological side that the Ego posits the non-Ego as a thing in itself, and yet as only a thing existing for it as its own noumenon, and on its metaphysical side that in consequence all reality is the Ego and its own determinations, which are objective, or valid for all, as determinations, not of you or of me, but of the consciousness common to all of us, the pure or absolute Ego.

Further, holding that, " like every other perception, the perception of a human body immediately involves the existence of that body," and, like Fichte, believing in a " common consciousness," he concludes that the evidence of sense is verined by " common consciousness " of the external world as objective in the Kantian sense of universally valid.

Consequently, Kant's explanation of the unity of a thing is that there is always one thing in itself causing in us many phenomena, which as understood by us are objectively valid for all our consciousnesses.