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Tenuous vs Soundness - What's the difference?

tenuous | soundness |

As an adjective tenuous

is thin in substance or consistency.

As a noun soundness is

the state or quality of being sound.

tenuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thin in substance or consistency.
    • The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
  • insubstantial
    • His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.

    soundness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being sound.
  • (countable) The result or product of being sound.
  • (logic) The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.
  • (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is a theorem then it must also be valid. Symbolically, letting T'' represent a theory within logic ''L'', this can be represented as the property that whenever T \vdash \phi is true, then T \vDash \phi must also be true, for any wff ''φ'' of logic ''L .