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correctness

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The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.

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A continent away, but no less incontinent in political correctness, Washington, D.C., is simply unable to control its liberal impulses and is always loath to be outdone in PC preciousness. Source: Internet

Active political tweeters in America were whiter, more left wing, more likely to be college educated, and less likely to say that “political correctness was a problem” than primary voters as a whole… Source: Internet

At higher-order perturbations, however, the Bohr model and quantum mechanics differ, and measurements of the Stark effect under high field strengths helped confirm the correctness of quantum mechanics over the Bohr model. Source: Internet

Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher whose philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. Source: Internet

Although this may lead the more technically naive to sophists' arguments about the nature of trust, the argument confuses the issue of "correctness" with that of "trustworthiness." Source: Internet

Beyond this, formal verification aims to prove the correctness of the algorithms underlying a system; citation important for cryptographic protocols for example. Source: Internet

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