validity

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Atheism is a simple proposition: Sufficient, convincing evidence for existence of the Supreme Being (s) is lacking and claims that rely on the existence of God for their validity are therefore false.

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  1. Strength or power in general. Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 199. With his [the lunatic's] cure from disease and the restored validity of this condition [of sensitive conscience], responsibility returns. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 119.
  2. The state or character of being valid. Specifically— Strength or force from being supported by fact; justness; soundness; efficacy: as, the validity of an argument or a proof; the validity of an objection. The question raised is that of the comparative validities of beliefs reached through complex intellectual processes and beliefs reached through simple intellectual processes. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., § 391. It is proved that the objective validity of mathematics presupposes that time and space are the forms of sense. E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 242.
  3. Legal efficacy or force; sufficiency in point of law. The validity of these new charters must turn upon the acceptance of them. D. Webster, Speech, March 10, 1818.

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  • "With that validity, they expect equal treatment with other married couples." —  NBC3 - Local News
  • You agree to (a) comply with all copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, contract and other laws necessary to protect all rights in the Proprietary Information, (b) not challenge CoStar's and its licensor's ownership of (or the validity or enforceability of their rights in and to) the Proprietary Information, and (c) not remove, conceal, obliterate or circumvent any copyright or other notice or license, use or copying technological measure included in the Product.
  • It's been a year since they've had to apply for visas according to the standard procedure - the time frames of considering an application have been prolonged, and the visa validity has been shortened. —  PH "Kommersant"
  • This social validity, however, is bounded; to the extent that other approaches overreach the conditions of their bounded validity, they can be criticised - for hypostatising partial moments of their context, and thus failing to make available the full range of practical insights arising from a multifaceted, complex and contradictory constellation of social experience. —  Roughtheory.org
  • The authors claim that no further research on homeopathy is necessary, while advocates of homeopathy assert that almost all of the 8 homeopathic trials lacked external validity, that is, they used only a single homeopathic medicine given to every subject without the typical individualization of treatment that is commonly used in homeopathic practice. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. from French validité = Spanish validad = Portuguese validade = Italian validità, from Late Latin validita(t-)s, strength of body, Middle Latin also validness, from Latin validus, strong: see valid.
 

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