• Well-founded

    Full definition of well-founded

    Adjective

    well-founded

    1. based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement
    2. properly substantiated
    3. (math) A binary relation, R, is well-founded (or wellfounded) on a class X if and only if every non-empty subset of X has a minimal element with respect to R.

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