[ before noun ] He had to show that he had a well-founded fear of persecution on religious or political grounds to qualify as a refugee.
1 based on facts or good reasons:
Her fears were well-founded.
In this way, readers of this research may judge for themselves whether the original analyses are well-founded.
The same structure is repeated ad nauseam, in particular, the fax is very badly not well-founded.
The standard operators relate the new concepts to standard set theory, and remain useful for defining well-founded constructions.
How can we improve upon our current "muddling through" while incorporating the well-founded critiques of overly rationalist approaches?
Approximating operators, stable operators, well-founded fixpoints and applications in non-monotonic reasoning.
The order is well-founded; there is no infinitely decreasing chain from finite (r, c).
This is clearly a well-founded ordering, as instantiating a type quantifier with a simple monotype decreases the overall number of quantifiers.
It is nevertheless nice to note that in the special case of the well-founded semantics there exist two complementary characterizations using level mappings.
