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well-founded

adjective
  1. Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.

  2. Properly substantiated.

  3. Of a binary relation: such that every non-empty subset of the relation's domain has a minimal element with respect to the relation.

Antonymsill-founded, ill-founded

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