Cogency definition

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The quality or condition of being cogent; power to convince.
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The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
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Noun

Singular:
cogency
Plural:
cogencies

Cogency Sentence Examples

  • The three processes, as different applications of the principle of similarity, consisting of different combinations of premises, cause different degrees of cogency in their several conclusions.

  • If we add the qualification of relevance we destroy the cogency of the method.

  • He was the author of the report of this last committee (1866), in which the Congressional plan of reconstruction was set forth and which has been considered a state paper of remarkable power and cogency.

  • Clearness, cogency, masculine simplicity of diction, are conspicuous in the pamphlet, but true creative power told the Tale of a Tub.

  • If the sources of energy within the atom can be drawn upon, and the phenomena of radio-activity leave no doubt about this, there is here an incalculable source of heat which takes the cogency out of any other calculation respecting the sources maintaining the sun's radiation.

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