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Inconsistency vs. Consistency — What's the Difference?

Inconsistency vs. Consistency — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Inconsistency and Consistency

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Inconsistency

The fact or state of being inconsistent
The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour

Consistency

In classical deductive logic, a consistent theory is one that does not lead to a logical contradiction. The lack of contradiction can be defined in either semantic or syntactic terms.

Inconsistency

The state or quality of being inconsistent.

Consistency

Consistent behaviour or treatment
The consistency of measurement techniques

Inconsistency

Something inconsistent
Many inconsistencies in your proposal.
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Consistency

The way in which a substance holds together; thickness or viscosity
The sauce has the consistency of creamed butter

Inconsistency

The state of being inconsistent.

Consistency

Agreement or logical coherence among things or parts
A rambling argument that lacked any consistency.

Inconsistency

(logic) An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.

Consistency

Correspondence among related aspects; compatibility
Questioned the consistency of the administration's actions with its stated policy.

Inconsistency

The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift.

Consistency

Reliability or uniformity of successive results or events
Pitched with remarkable consistency throughout the season.

Inconsistency

Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!

Consistency

Degree of density, firmness, or viscosity
Beat the mixture to the consistency of soft butter.

Inconsistency

Lack of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Consistency

Local coherence.

Inconsistency

The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

Consistency

Correspondence or compatibility.

Inconsistency

The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts

Consistency

Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.

Consistency

The degree of viscosity of something.
Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.

Consistency

(logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.

Consistency

(obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

Consistency

The property of holding together and retaining its shape;
When the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake

Consistency

A harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts

Consistency

Logical coherence and accordance with the facts;
A rambling argument that lacked any consistency

Consistency

(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another

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