well-founded
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See also: wellfounded
Adjective
well-founded (comparative more well-founded, superlative most well-founded)
- Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
- Antonym: ill-founded
- Properly substantiated.
- Antonym: ill-founded
- 1946 September and October, “Speculation Run Riot”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:
- After the crisis had passed, certain well-founded proposals were revived, and resulted in important additions to the railway network of the country.
- (mathematics) Of a binary relation: such that every non-empty subset of the relation's domain has a minimal element with respect to the relation.
Hypernyms
Related terms
- well-founded relation (mathematics)
Translations
based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement
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properly substantiated
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mathematics: such that every set has a minimal element
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