Rigorous
True
True adjective - Being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard.
Usage example: if that is true, then we can't get in without a key
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- It has some of the same features as science: there are multiple branches that all build on each other, old theories are not discarded, just absorbed into "more correct" or "more general" theories, and it has very rigorous notions of what is true and what can be claimed to be correct.
Source: Useful Notes / Mathematics -
Itzkovitz immediately deserted the IDF and joined the Foreign Legion, undergoing their rigorous training regimen all for a rumor, which eventually turned out to be true.
Source: Best Served Cold - Today the Legion is considered a highly prestigious elite combat unit, and so there are rigorous background checks, so this isn't necessarily true anymore.
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