Qualify — English definition
When one source limits or adds a condition to another's claim rather than flatly contradicting it.
Where it is taught
- Synthesizing Multiple Sources — Research & Source-Based Writing, English 11: American Voices, Identity & Public Memory, Grade 11
In use
Weighing conflicting medical advice, sorting through mixed reviews, reconciling two eyewitnesses who describe the same event differently — each is an act of synthesis: lining sources up, mapping where they corroborate, qualify, and clash, and arriving at a conclusion that belongs to you rather than to any single source.
Synthesizing Multiple Sources