Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

The logical inconsistency of a Cretan asserting all Cretans are always liars may not have occurred to Epimenides, nor to Callimachus, who both used the phrase to emphasize their point, without irony.

Like Bugs, his schemes have an inconsistency which Encyclopedia exposes.

Here Steiner suggests that there is an inconsistency between Kant's philosophy, which posits that knowledge is representation and that the essential verity of the world is inaccessible to human consciousness, and modern science, which assumes that all influences can be found in what Steiner termed the “ sinnlichen und geistlichen ” ( sensory and mental / spiritual ) world to which we have access.

This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.

In Luxembourg, more senior members of the family have also been Royal Highnesses, but only due to their status as Princes of Bourbon-Parma ( itself an inconsistency as Parma was only ducal, but this family has male-line descent from kings of Etruria, Spain and France ).

The Scottish Mountaineering Club have carried out a number of revisions of the tables, both in response to new height data on Ordnance Survey maps and to address the perceived inconsistency as to which peaks qualify for Munro status.

According to this hypothesis, the only possible time lines are those entirely self-consistent — so anything a time traveler does in the past must have been part of history all along, and the time traveler can never do anything to prevent the trip back in time from happening, since this would represent an inconsistency.

Like other revolutionary states, practical considerations have sometimes led the Islamic Republic to inconsistency and subordination of such ideological concerns as pan-Islamic solidarity.

This inconsistency indicates that Plutarch ’ s story may have been exaggerated for dramatic effect, causing discrepancies.

One long going inconsistency between artists has been the relative size of the Guardians ' heads to their short bodies, most artists designing them with larger heads to suggest their larger brains and alien anatomy, whereas others have been shown to draw near enough human-like proportional heads.

Lord Peter Wimsey, who is in the region on a fishing holiday, points out the inconsistency which makes it impossible for Campbell himself to have worked on the painting.

Some have criticized the inherent " social awkwardness " in transactions that involve tipping, the inconsistency of tipping for some services but not similar ones, and the irrationality of basing tips on price, rather than the amount and quality of service ( a customer pays a larger tip to a server bringing him a lobster rather than a hamburger, for example ).

People paid only a small amount of money have less external justification for their inconsistency and must produce internal justification in order to reduce the high degree of dissonance that they are experiencing.

Hutcheson does not seem to have seen an inconsistency between this external criterion with his fundamental ethical principle.

In 1874, when Gladstone published his pamphlet on The Vatican Decrees, Lord Acton wrote during November and December a series of remarkable letters to The Times, illustrating Gladstone's main theme by numerous historical examples of papal inconsistency, in a way which must have been bitter enough to the ultramontane party, but ultimately disagreeing with Gladstone's conclusion and insisting that the Church itself was better than its premises implied.

In practice, testing measures are never perfectly consistent. Theories of test reliability have been developed to estimate the effects of inconsistency on the accuracy of measurement.

Factors that contribute to inconsistency: features of the individual or the situation that can affect test scores but have nothing to do with the attribute being measured

In fact it has been argued that to prevent some pathologies related to the time inconsistency of monetary policy implementation ( in particular excessive inflation ), the head of a central bank should have a larger distaste for inflation than the rest of the economy on average.

The subsequent Tenth Amendment, detailing non-enumerated rights as the sole property of the states and the people, is often cited as the clarification for this inconsistency and the reason why the federal courts have no say in affirming or denying said rights per the Ninth Amendment.

The internal consistency of Titor's story has been questioned: for instance, in some posts he claims that money is widely used and people still have credit cards, despite his statement that centralized banking no longer exists ( this is either an inconsistency or implies the rise of private currencies ).

Conversely, no future law of a State would be void for inconsistency with ( being " repugnant to ") any UK law applying with " paramount force " in Australia ; a State ( like the Commonwealth ) would have power to repeal or amend such an existing UK law so far as it applied to the State ( s 3 ).

The exact origins and reasons for this inconsistency is unclear but it may have its origins in the Sahuagin's swimming speed and artist's concerns with producing a viable creature to fit the swimming speed of its RPG game stats.

Cumberland's views on this point were long abandoned by utilitarians as destroying the homogeneity and self-consistency of their theory ; but John Stuart Mill and some other writers have reproduced them as necessary to its defence against charges not less serious than even inconsistency.

Some Muslim scholars argue that the Gospel of Barnabas has been modified, thus inconsistency is observed.

However, there has been no small amount of inconsistency in the usage of the " is-a " link: Ronald J. Brachman wrote a paper titled " What IS-A is and isn't ", wherein 29 different semantics were found in projects whose knowledge representation schemes involved an " is-a " link.

The adoption of national identity in terms of historical development, has commonly been the result of a response by an influential group or groups that is unsatisfied with traditional identities due to inconsistency between their defined social order and the experience of that social order by its members, resulting in a situation of anomie that nationalists seek to resolve.

Tongyong Pinyin has been sporadically adopted throughout the island, and criticized for inconsistency.

As noted by Weyl, Formal logical systems also run the risk of inconsistency ; in Peano arithmetic, this arguably has already been settled with several proofs of consistency, but there is debate over whether or not they are sufficiently finitary to be meaningful.

Great inconsistency of nomenclature has been reported within and among communities.

In a recent survey of the debate, a proponent of the TSSI concludes that " the proofs of inconsistency are no longer defended ; the entire case against Marx has been reduced to the interpretive issue.

Regulations were subsequently tightened to prevent such behaviour ; however, the ABA has been accused of weakness and inconsistency in enforcing these regulations.

Relatedly, this inconsistency has been used to support the position that the theoretical distinction between social reality testing and physical reality testing, as well as the distinction between informational influence and normative influence, are untenable.

Here the marked inconsistency which characterized his public life became manifest ; for when John Tyler had become president, had been read out of the Whig party, and had vetoed Whig measures ( including a tariff bill ), for which Cushing had voted, Cushing first defended the vetoes and then voted again for the bills.

Since Max Weber, the issue of status inconsistency has been the object of many studies, particularly in the post-industrial societies and also because of an intervening factor: religion, particularly in emerging nations.

He first discovered that his company was involved in very shady practices, and this initial inconsistency led him inevitably to unravel the lies that he had been fed since childhood.

When Karen points out an inconsistency, Mary pretends to have been covering for Rosalie, who reluctantly corroborates Mary's story for fear of being exposed herself.

It has been criticised for its syntactical inconsistency, steep learning curve, and the fact that it does not deliver a cross-platform multimedia solution.

However, United's form had been erratic since the Munich air disaster in 1958, and because of their inconsistency they spent the season fighting relegation.

Another key feature is inconsistency of speech sound production from one occasion to another.

In economics, dynamic inconsistency, or time inconsistency, describes a situation where a decision-maker's preferences change over time in such a way that what is preferred at one point in time is inconsistent with what is preferred at another point in time.

Another type of inconsistency is more closely affiliated with behavioral economics, and " time inconsistency " is the more commonly used terminology there.

In the context of behavioral economics, time inconsistency is related to how each different self of a decision-maker may have different preferences over current and future choices.