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Justifiable vs Valid - What's the difference?

justifiable | valid |

As adjectives the difference between justifiable and valid

is that justifiable is that can be justified while valid is well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.

justifiable

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • That can be justified.
  • * 1917 , Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory , Part II.
  • ''It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable :
    ''(a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment,
    ''(b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage.
    In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. —

    Antonyms

    * unjustifiable

    valid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
    I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer.
  • Acceptable, proper or correct.
  • A valid format for the date is MM/DD/YY.
    Do not drive without a valid license.
  • Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
  • (logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
  • (logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
  • An argument is valid if and only if the set consisting of both (1) all of its premises and (2) the contradictory of its conclusion is inconsistent.

    Antonyms

    * invalid

    Hyponyms

    * sound