Synonyms:
valid
Meaning: well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; "a valid inference"; "a valid argument"; "a valid contract"
Usage examples
It is vain to say that the circumstances have been unique and that the general principle is still valid.
The dualism of mind and matter, if we have been right so far, cannot be allowed as metaphysically valid.
It is taken to be an established fact in nature, a valid induction from man's knowledge of natural order.
If it brings about certain consequences, certain determinate changes, in the world, it is accepted as valid.
If any one asks: 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?' we can only answer by appealing to our principle.
In this chapter we shall briefly consider the kind of way in which such reasoning is attempted, with a view to discovering whether we can hope that it may be valid.
But it does not follow that the patch of colour is not also psychical, unless we assume that the physical and the psychical cannot overlap, which I no longer consider a valid assumption.
I am by no means confident that the distinction between images and sensations is ultimately valid, and I should be glad to be convinced that images can be reduced to sensations of a peculiar kind.
That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all she could believe possible.
And I think that, if we could regard as ultimately valid the difference between physical and mnemic causation, we could distinguish images from sensations as having mnemic causes, though they may also have physical causes.