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All science fiction relies on being self-consistent, not consistent with the real world.

6 Mistakes Hanna Barbera Made With The GoBots 2009

So, you've got a cool SF environment to zip around in, more human and alien cultures than you can shake a stick at, and a ship that not only fuses human and alien engineering in an ingenious and self-consistent way, but happens to be nigh-on invulnerable, and - not inconsequentially - ends up looking pretty cool as well.

MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010

When the teabaggers float dreams of becoming a new party, what they fail to realize is that Bob Barr, Ron Paul* and the Libertarian party are already out there, having laid the local political-machine groundwork for decades and crafting a self-consistent platform that really is what they claim to be for: actually advocating smaller government and stronger individual rights.

Think Progress » Gov. Perry Bemoans ‘Federal Takeover’ Of Education, But His State’s Takeover Of Textbooks Is Totally Fine 2010

A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature.

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If you can construct a logical explanation based on derivations from a self-evident assumption or two you have a self-consistent morality system.

Child Abuse Alert 2009

I do agree about the technical standards of a poem: that it be a self-consistent world that coheres to its own inner logic, that it live on its own fire.

Five ways to judge a Poem’s Merit 2009

"But you can trust the assertions of a long-standing self-consistent identity that over time develops credibility" does gender count as identity?

On the Nature of Bloggy Relationships Candid Engineer 2009

The fact that their algorithm converges on unique, self-consistent laws, seems to undermine the purported underdetermination of theory by data, a popular bone of contention in the philosophy of science.

Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

But you can trust the assertions of a long-standing self-consistent identity that over time develops credibility and exhibits demonstrable experience and expertise, even if you don't know "who" that person is, or what their "credentials" are.

On the Nature of Bloggy Relationships Candid Engineer 2009

A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature.

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