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Cogency vs Validity - What's the difference?

cogency | validity |

As nouns the difference between cogency and validity

is that cogency is the state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive while validity is the state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

cogency

English

Noun

(cogencies)
  • The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
  • * 1781 , , "Addison," in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols (London), vol. 5, page 156:
    • All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest.
  • * 1928 , , "Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting," Speculum , vol. 3, no. 4 (Oct), page 444:
    • A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.

    References

    * * * * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

    validity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia validity)
  • The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
  • Having legal force.
  • A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).