0 the fact that people are made to follow rules in a very severe way:
1 the quality of being detailed, careful, and complete:
Her arguments lacked intellectual rigor.
2 high standards:
This has produced conceptual confusion that has contributed to a lack of structural rigor in the field of study.
Like all mistaken ideas and premises in science it would have been remedied eventually by the rigors of scientific method.
These latter two elements might in many cases be considered redundant, given the rigor of the two principal elements, shared use and evaluation.
This complete rigor allows precise evaluation of aspects of the system in psychological terms, prompting us to reject logical individual constants (rigid designators).
Because of this absence of computational rigor, some of their statements can be confusing or even misleading.
He did not endorse the definition he gave, but criticized its lack of analytic rigor and philosophical sophistication.
His books are remarkable for their clarity of exposition, scope, mathematical rigor, attention to detail, balance, and sense of history.
The increased rigor associated with these models, however, is rarely accompanied by the extra data required to cope with the influx of new parameters.
