Sentence:  When a philosopher adopted fully the Nominalist view of the signification of general language, retaining along with it the "dictum de omni" as the foundation of all reasoning, two such premisses fairly put together were likely, if he was a <WSD>consistent</WSD> thinker, to land him in rather startling conclusions. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. (from late 16th c. in the obsolete sense ‘consisting of')