Contradiction
[kɒntrə'dɪkʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑntrə'dɪkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the speech act of contradicting someone; 'he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction'.
(noun.) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; 'the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction'.
(noun.) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas.
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Definition
(n.) An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
(n.) Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Gainsaying, denial.[2]. Opposition, contrariety, incongruity, antagonism, clashing.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Repugnance, contrariety, inconsistency, incompatibility
ANT:Harmony, coincidence, concurrence, {[almation]?}, proof, statement
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Examples
- If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For that is a contradiction in terms, and suppose that the senses continue to operate, even after they have ceased all manner of operation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Has he ever persisted in anything except from contradiction? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thus we are led to infer that the contradiction is an appearance only, and witchery of the senses. Plato. The Republic.
- The sick man seemed to fall into a gap of death, at her contradiction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- First, the contradiction must be at the same time and in the same relation. Plato. The Republic.
- But have we not here fallen into a contradiction? Plato. The Republic.
- An industrial revolution analogous to that in manufacture during the nineteenth century is distinctly probable, and capitalistic agriculture may soon cease to be a contradiction in terms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There is no contradiction, therefore, in extending the same doctrine to all the perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This contradiction I endeavour to reconcile, after the following manner. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I said; how shall we find a gentle nature which has also a great spirit, for the one is the contradiction of the other? Plato. The Republic.
- The supposition of the continued existence of sensible objects or perceptions involves no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contradictions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He explains the perplexities and contradictions of life as a conflict of light and darkness, Ormuzd was God and Ahriman Satan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You will soon be rid, now, of me and my contradictions. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But there were plenty of contradictions in his imaginative demands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These were perplexities and contradictions that I could not account for. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That is a contradiction in terms; and even implies the flattest of all contradictions, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The bulk of these new Bible students took what their consciences approved from the Bible and ignored its riddles and contradictions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Others, perhaps, or myself, upon more mature reflections, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That was what I meant when I spoke of stimulants to the intellect; I was thinking of the contradictions which arise in perception. Plato. The Republic.
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