well-founded

See also: wellfounded

English

Adjective

well-founded (comparative more well-founded, superlative most well-founded)

  1. Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
    Antonym: ill-founded
  2. Properly substantiated.
    Antonym: ill-founded
  3. (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

  • well-founded relation (mathematics)

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