self-accordant

Updated: May 2, 2025

For the law of reason which requires us to seek for this unity is a necessary law, inasmuch as without it we should not possess a faculty of reason, nor without reason a consistent and self-accordant mode of employing the understanding, nor, in the absence of this, any proper and sufficient criterion of empirical truth.

Immanuel Kant - The Critique of Pure Reason

There was some little difficulty about it, for Mary, who knew her father so well, was unconquerably reluctant that an inconsistency should crown the career of one who, all through life, had been so completely self-accordant.

William Hale White - Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott