valid
He could validly argue that all art enriches a community emotionally and intellectually.
He is claiming that the couple were never validly married and she is not entitled to the cash.
A mentally impaired person cannot validly sign a will.

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Examples of validly

validly
Further, the inventory of permissible feet from (12) and (13) constrains what syllable sequences can be validly parsed as feet.
Any validly drawn conclusion about easy cases must derive from some other source.
A proposition validly deduced from a true proposition is itself true.
This influences the quality and ease of carrying out a meta-analysis as variable reporting impacts the ability to extract and validly combine results across studies.
After all, for every validly drawn conclusion there are premises from which that conclusion is drawn.
Each of us can validly take a different slice of what we consider the subject.
Consequently, all elements validly posited in grammatical description have some kind of meaning (often quite schematic).
Which extant assessment instruments can reliably and validly document change in learner proficiency and at which levels?
The children with autism, however, did not: responses were identical to validly cued as invalidly cued targets.
A pure tone is not always desirable as the system may validly respond in a much more complex way.
However, in practice it can be challenging to characterize the production process validly.
The degree to which our statistical models fail to correspond to our theoretical models undermines our ability to validly test developmental theory.
In other words, to determine whether the given geometric form is uniquely and validly defined.
Clearly, the patient can validly claim that she was wronged; her rights to informed consent and self-determination were violated.
The answer may be methodological, in that we may have measured one domain more validly than another.
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