Literary notes about validity (AI summary)
The term “validity” is employed by writers to negotiate a broad spectrum of criteria that determine whether an idea, action, or judgment holds legitimacy, soundness, or universal applicability. In philosophical works, it frequently denotes the capacity of an argument or maxim to command reason universally, as seen in discussions of moral law and principles in Kant’s texts [1, 2, 3]. At the same time, authors invoke it to assess the empirical or legal standing of a claim, whether that be through the retrospective confirmation of a belief [4] or the repeated judicial affirmation of a statute [5, 6]. Moreover, literary figures extend the notion to the ethical grounds of thought and social constructs, challenging readers to consider the grounding of beliefs and agreements in both rational and imaginative realms [7, 8]. Thus, validity in literature serves as a multifaceted concept, bridging empirical inquiry, legal justification, and the moral underpinning of human knowledge.
- Dispute the validity of a definition, and he is completely at a loss to find another.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - In relation to this criterion, therefore, we must suppose the idea of the systematic unity of nature to possess objective validity and necessity.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - 100 For if we do not admit such a reference, the claim of the judgement of taste to universal validity would not hold good.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - Their validity is established by a sort of retrospective, mythical empiry.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - The validity of this law has been established over and over again by the Supreme Court of the United States with perfect unanimity.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Volume 5, part 4: James Buchanan - To give force and validity, by their decrees, to such as they should approve of the emperor's edicts.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - To discard it on that ground would be to discard all reasoned knowledge and to deny altogether the validity of thought.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - So it was, reasoning thus, that Martin questioned the validity of his popularity.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London