What are inconsistencies?

Inconsistencies are when things don’t match up, like when you expect one thing to happen, but something else happens instead.

Imagine you have a toy box that always has red blocks in it. Every time you reach in, you pull out a red block. But one day, you grab a blue block. That blue block is an inconsistency, it doesn’t fit with what you usually get from the toy box.

Think of inconsistencies like a puzzle where some pieces don’t quite match the others. If all your puzzle pieces have four sides that click together, but one piece has three sides and another has five, those are inconsistencies. They make it harder to finish the picture because they don’t fit right.

Sometimes you might not even notice an inconsistency at first, like when you're playing with blocks and suddenly a blue block appears in your red tower. It’s just different from what you expected! Inconsistencies are when things don’t match up, like when you expect one thing to happen, but something else happens instead.

Imagine you have a toy box that always has red blocks in it. Every time you reach in, you pull out a red block. But one day, you grab a blue block. That blue block is an inconsistency, it doesn’t fit with what you usually get from the toy box.