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Definition of Contradictories
1. contradictory [n] - See also: contradictory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradictories
Literary usage of Contradictories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"things impossible in themselves; for so I should NO. xvn. say it enjoined
contradictories. But I say the law ' ' ' sometimes, the law-makers not knowing the ..."
2. Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being by James Frederick Ferrier (1856)
"But the relationship of subject and object—of me and things, or thoughts, is a
relationship of contradictories, because each term can be conceived only in ..."
3. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"2 We have seen that mysticism tends to develop into a solution of contradictories;
and Carlyle probably meant that the anonymous journalist was on the track ..."
4. Religion as Credible Doctrine: A Study of the Fundamental Difficulty by William Hurrell Mallock (1903)
"We are not indeed concerned to emulate the feat of Hegel and show that contradictories,
such as freedom and not freedom, are identical, but we are concerned ..."
5. The Elements of Geometry by George Bruce Halsted (1886)
"So any class y and the class non^ are mutually the contradictories of each other,
and both together include all things in the universe; eg, unconscious and ..."
6. The Modalist: Or, The Laws of Rational Conviction. A Textbook in Formal Or by Edward John Hamilton (1891)
"For, being contradictories of one and the same thing, they must all be non-existent
... Therefore we cannot have a series of mutual contradictories; ..."
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