what's the meaning of "with face validaty"?
The whole sentence is that "although we....., much can be concluded and acted upon on the basis of common sense and concepts with face validaty".
question: the word FACE here, is it a noun or a verb? what is the meaning of "with face validaty"? And, what is the meaning of WITH here?
thank you very much!!!
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Hello Anna,
I think they mean 'face value' which means seeing something for what it seems to be without looking deeper into it or trying to analyse it.
Hope this helps
Bob
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"With face validity" or "with validity on its face" means that it at least looks valid "on the face of it." For example, imagine a brick. Imagine that someone tells you that it is a gold brick.
If it is an ordinary rough, red brick then it is not even gold "on the face of it."
If, however, it is bright yellow, smooth, and shiny, then it has "face validity." You have to go deeper than the surface to find out whether it is really gold, or just iron pyrites, or gold-plated tungsten.
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