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Meanings of soundness in English
Logical term meaning that an argument is valid and its premises are true.
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Examples for "sound"
Examples for "sound"
1
He said the health of the grain industry was still quite sound.
2
Police said the sound was missing due to an unspecified technical problem.
3
That was a good sound, one Scipio heard several times a week.
4
Outside somebody called, 'Mr Dexter, Mr Dexter.' Then a new sound started.
5
The sound quality issue is not going to disappear any time soon.
1
But, in truth, I care little to make my position logically sound.
2
From the pulpit of St. Mary's he told his congregation that Hume's argument against miracles was logically sound.
3
Nevertheless, it is regrettable that Ministers took up on the Sudan problem a position that was logically sound but futile in the sphere of action.
Usage of soundness in English
1
Already they were beginning to question the soundness of this whole approach.
2
Others questioned the soundness of further government support for GM and Chrysler.
3
Certainly an increased focus on stability and soundness beats the counterfactual alternative.
4
The regular breathing of the sleeper proclaimed the soundness of his slumber.
5
Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety.
6
The resulting speculum was, by these simple arrangements, absolutely perfect in soundness.
7
I don't think there's any doubt at all about its fundamental soundness.
8
I would question if not his eyesight, then his soundness of sanity.
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His care over the strength and soundness of the apparatus was prodigious.
10
There can be no doubt of the psychological soundness of this principle.
11
God gave Balder Helwyse opportunity to prove the soundness of his faith.
12
A more elaborate diet attacks the soundness of his almost bovine digestion.
13
But, secondly, such an error would be incompatible with soundness of mind.
14
I drink in his wholeness, the soundness of his body and mind.
15
We have seen that assimilation is essential to national soundness and strength.
16
Integrity of views, more than their soundness, is the basis of esteem.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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