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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consistence \Con*sist"ence\, Consistency \Con*sist"en*cy\, n.
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The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.
--Bacon.We are as water, weak, and of no consistence.
--Jer. Taylor.The same form, substance, and consistency.
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A degree of firmness, density, viscosity, or spissitude; a measure of the ability to hold together when manipulated.
Syn: body.
Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.
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That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
The church of God, as meaning the whole consistence of orders and members.
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Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency.
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Agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character.
That consistency of behavior whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.
--Addison.Consistency, thou art a jewel.
--Popular Saying.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "firmness of matter," from Medieval Latin consistentia or directly from Latin consistentem, from consistere (see consist). Meaning "state of being in agreement or harmony" (with something) is from 1650s; meaning "self-consistent" is from 1716.
Wiktionary
n. 1 local coherence. 2 correspondence or compatibility. 3 reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent. 4 The degree of viscosity of something.
WordNet
n. the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistence, body]
a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts [syn: consistence] [ant: inconsistency]
logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency"
(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
Wikipedia
In statistics, consistency of procedures, such as computing confidence intervals or conducting hypothesis tests, is a desired property of their behaviour as the number of items in the data set to which they are applied increases indefinitely. In particular, consistency requires that the outcome of the procedure with unlimited data should identify the underlying truth. Use of the term in statistics derives from Sir Ronald Fisher in 1922.
Use of the terms consistency and consistent in statistics is restricted to cases where essentially the same procedure can be applied to any number of data items. In complicated applications of statistics, there may be several ways in which the number of data items may grow. For example, records for rainfall within an area might increase in three ways: records for additional time periods; records for additional sites with a fixed area; records for extra sites obtained by extending the size of the area. In such cases, the property of consistency may be limited to one or more of the possible ways a sample size can grow.
In negotiation, consistency, or the consistency principle, refers to a negotiator's strong psychological need to be consistent with prior acts and statements. The consistency principle states that people are motivated toward cognitive consistency and will change their attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and actions to achieve it. Dr. Robert Cialdini and his research team have conducted extensive research into what Cialdini refers to as the 'Consistency Principle of Persuasion'. Described in his book Influence Science and Practice, this principle states that people live up to what they have publicly said they will do and what they have written down. So Cialdini encourages us to have others write down their commitments as a route to having others live up to their promises.
A knowledge base KB is consistent iff its negation is not a tautology.
I.e., a knowledge base KB is inconsistent (not consistent) iff there is no interpretation which entails KB.
Example of an inconsistent knowledge base:
KB := { a, ¬a }
Consistency in terms of knowledge bases is mostly the same as the natural understanding of consistency.
Category:Knowledge representation
Consistency is a term used in the pulp and paper making industry.
The consistency of a suspension is defined as:
C = x/(x + y)
Where C is consistency, x is the mass of pulp, and y is the mass of the rest of the suspension (usually mainly composed of water).
Category:Measurement Category:Pulp and paper industry Category:Standards
In classical deductive logic, a consistent theory is one that does not contain a contradiction. The lack of contradiction can be defined in either semantic or syntactic terms. The semantic definition states that a theory is consistent if and only if it has a model, i.e., there exists an interpretation under which all formulas in the theory are true. This is the sense used in traditional Aristotelian logic, although in contemporary mathematical logic the term satisfiable is used instead. A theory T is consistent if and only if there is no formula ϕ such that both ϕ and its negation ¬ϕ are elements of the set T. Let A be set of closed sentences (informally "axioms") and ⟨A⟩ the set of closed sentences provable from A under a meta-theoretical deductive system such as informal mathematics. The set of axioms A is consistent when ⟨A⟩ is.
Let L be a signature, T a theory in L and ϕ a sentence in L. We say that ϕ is a consequence of T, or that T entails ϕ, in symbols T ⊢ ϕ, if every model of T is a model of ϕ. (In particular if T has no models then T entails ϕ.)
Warning: we don't require that if T ⊢ ϕ then there is a proof of ϕ from T. In any case, with infinitary languages it's not always clear what would constitute a proof. Some writers use T ⊢ ϕ to mean that ϕ is deducible from T in some particular formal proof calculus, and they write T ⊨ ϕ for our notion of entailment (a notation which clashes with our A ⊨ ϕ). For first-order logic the two kinds of entailment coincide by the completeness theorem for the proof calculus in question. We say that ϕ is valid, or is a logical theorem, in symbols ⊢ ϕ, if ϕ is true in every L-structure. We say that ϕ is consistent if ϕ is true in some L-structure. Likewise we say that a theory T is consistent if it has a model. We say that two theories S and T in L infinity omega are equivalent if they have the same models, i.e. if Mod(S) = Mod(T). (Please note definition of Mod(T) on p. 30 ...)
A Shorter Model Theory by Wilfrid Hodges, p. 37
If these semantic and syntactic definitions are equivalent for any theory formulated using a particular deductive logic, the logic is called complete. The completeness of the sentential calculus was proved by Paul Bernays in 1918 and Emil Post in 1921, while the completeness of predicate calculus was proved by Kurt Gödel in 1930, and consistency proofs for arithmetics restricted with respect to the induction axiom schema were proved by Ackermann (1924), von Neumann (1927) and Herbrand (1931). Stronger logics, such as second-order logic, are not complete.
A consistency proof is a mathematical proof that a particular theory is consistent The early development of mathematical proof theory was driven by the desire to provide finitary consistency proofs for all of mathematics as part of Hilbert's program. Hilbert's program was strongly impacted by incompleteness theorems, which showed that sufficiently strong proof theories cannot prove their own consistency (provided that they are in fact consistent).
Although consistency can be proved by means of model theory, it is often done in a purely syntactical way, without any need to reference some model of the logic. The cut-elimination (or equivalently the normalization of the underlying calculus if there is one) implies the consistency of the calculus: since there is obviously no cut-free proof of falsity, there is no contradiction in general.
__NOTOC__ Consistency, in logic, is a quality of no contradiction.
Consistency may also refer to:
Consistency in database systems refers to the requirement that any given database transaction must change affected data only in allowed ways. Any data written to the database must be valid according to all defined rules, including constraints, cascades, triggers, and any combination thereof. This does not guarantee correctness of the transaction in all ways the application programmer might have wanted (that is the responsibility of application-level code) but merely that any programming errors cannot result in the violation of any defined rules.
Usage examples of "consistency".
Furthermore, the rights which the present statutes confer are subject to the Anti-Trust Acts, though it can be hardly said that the cases in which the Court has endeavored to draw the line between the rights claimable by patentees and the kind of monopolistic privileges which are forbidden by those acts exhibit entire consistency in their holdings.
A particularly showy native flower of the Planet Texas, three inches in diameter when fully opened, the bloodflower exuded a liquid of the color and consistency of human blood when disturbed.
Milky-white food slurry exploded in all directions, showering the recovery team with thick white fluid that dried quickly to a chalklike consistency.
The precise location of the morbid conditions which give rise to the discharges, as well as to their extent, modifies the color, consistency, and ingredients of the stools.
If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb.
Alex shot her another sex-drenched grin, and her blood heated and thickened to the consistency of Gristmill gravy.
They were, indeed, in many respects more Jeffersonian than Jefferson himself, and sought to realize some of his ideas with more energy and consistency.
It certainly could not have been the intention to place the rules and limits of maritime law under the disposal and regulation of the several States, as that would have defeated the uniformity and consistency at which the Constitution aimed on all subjects of a commercial character affecting the intercourse of the States with each other or with foreign states.
Rarely, however, has it been used so systematically, or with such contempt for even the appearance of consistency or intellectual honor, as by American nationalists, especially from the neoconservative camp.
Russian prisoner is nonregulation procedure, but Auschwitz regulations have no consistency or coherence.
We must keep in mind that the Child needs the security provided by relatedness, consistency, stroking, recognition, approval, and support.
It was a grayish-tan, semitranslucent liquid about the consistency of thin gravy.
All storms had a distinctive shape and obeyed their own internal rules of consistency, and lost their power once those internal rules were altered.
Normally, the geography of soul spaces has a smooth and open consistency to people in superconsciousness, without displaying the properties of gravity, temperature, pressure, matter, or a time clock associated with a chaotic physical universe.
Along with their pack frames of caribou antler, Torka, Manaravak, and Grek each wore undergarments, stockings, and mitten liners of the supplest skins of caribou calves, chewed to a consistency of velvet by the women and girls of the band.