The term congruence is used to refer to the relationship of similarity or balance that can exist between two or more elements.
Normally, congruence is a phenomenon that can occur in the mathematical sciences, both in algebra and in geometry. However, congruence is also a phenomenon that can occur in various areas of life that make up a person’s daily life.
The term derives from the Latin congruens which precisely referred to in this language being in agreement, having two elements coherent or being logical and timely. For example, it can be used to say that someone’s action or thought is logical.
use in mathematics
Congruence understood at the geometric level refers to the parity or balance that exists between two numbers at the algebraic level. This congruence can be observed in a concrete way in two or more geometric figures (such as a square or triangle) that have equal sides and angles between them. There are many ways in which geometric congruence in figures can be observed. In the field of algebra, congruence always supposes an equivalence between two elements or numerical structures, which means that, ultimately, they are equal since when transformed by another number they give the same result.
However, consistency is not observed at the scientific or mathematical level alone. In this sense, it can be said that congruence can also be a way of expressing oneself. When a thought or idea is consistent with another, this indicates that the person who expresses it is consistent and does not generate any kind of contradiction between one party and the other. Congruence can also occur between the thought, idea or way of expressing one person and another.
Its application in people: work according to the proposed plans
We usually say that a person acts with consistency, that is consistent by case, when he works in order to the plans that have been drawn up in a timely manner and that will lead him to obtain the proposed goal. This is the same as saying that that person acts logically. It is much more common to hear people talk in terms of logical action than in congruence, although of course, it is correct if it is expressed in the latter way.
A text, an utterance, a sentence and other written forms can also become congruent with each other if they seek and manage to express the same ideas or feelings. When this consistency is lost, sometimes the forms of expression become disordered, unintelligible and contradictory since they do not follow a general line or thought.
Congruence in procedural law
In the field of law we can also find the use of this concept. More precisely, at the request of procedural law, this concept appears and consists of the conformity between what was resolved in the sentence and the claims of the parties to the case and that were manifested in the file. Or, failing that, between accusation and sentence, when dealing with criminal cases. The mission is to ensure compliance with the right to defense in a trial, trying to avoid manifest bias and any type of arbitrary decision.
Always, the judicial process must achieve coherence between the claim of the plaintiff, what the defendant opposes, the evidence and the sentence.
use in religion
And the concept has also been used in the religious field to refer to the divine grace that acts, works on the person.
The other side of congruence is inconsistency, which will be the lack of agreement, relationship or correspondence between one thing and another. For example, the one who says to do one thing and in practice we see him do something totally opposite, that is incongruity.
And also incongruity is something illogical or contradictory.
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