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Consistent/consistency The quality of varying little or minimally between or across tasks, situations, occasions, judgements, responses, measurements, etc., or in the diagnosticity or evaluative utility of the content of pieces of information.
consistency: in argument this refers to a standard for assessing the quality of the reasons provided – when the reasons offered as support are not contradictory, that is, are not in conflict, they are considered to be ‘consistent’. (see: acceptability, grounds, logical inconsistency) agreement or harmony between parts of something complex;
logical harmony, of a logical system: constituted so that the propositions deduced from different axioms of the system do not contradict each other.
(see also: reliability, validity)
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