self-consistent

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1. self-consistent - Adjective

2. self-consistent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not self-contradictory

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If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality. Arthur Koestler

Mathematics... is the set of all possible self-consistent structures. Michio Kaku

According to this hypothesis, physics in or near closed timelike curves (time machines) can only be consistent with the universal laws of physics, and thus only self-consistent events can occur. Source: Internet

And hopefully an ISO which, being a single, permanent collection of files, rather than files scattered across Microsoft web sites, can be more easily tested to be self-consistent. Source: Internet

Hodges, W: "A Shorter Model Theory", page 182. CUP, 1997 Using these methods, he found a way of using formal logic to show that there are self-consistent nonstandard models of the real number system that include infinite and infinitesimal numbers. Source: Internet

Later analysis by Thorne and Robert Forward showed that for certain initial trajectories of the billiard ball, there could actually be an infinite number of self-consistent solutions. Source: Internet

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