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Definition of Contradiction

1. Noun. Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas.

2. Noun. (logic) a statement that is necessarily false. "The statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"

3. Noun. The speech act of contradicting someone. "He spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"

Definition of Contradiction

1. 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.

Definition of Contradiction

1. Noun. The act of contradicting. ¹

2. Noun. A statement that contradicts itself. ¹

3. Noun. a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions ¹

4. Noun. (logic) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Contradiction

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradiction

contracultural contracyclical contracyclically contradance contradances contradancing contradanza contradanzas contradict contradictable

contradicted contradictedness contradicter contradicters contradicting contradiction contradiction in terms contradictional contradictionless contradictions

contradictions in terms contradictious contradictiously contradictiousness contradictive contradictor contradictories contradictorily contradictoriness contradictors

Literary usage of Contradiction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"Now an action may imply a contradiction two ways, either in respect of the object, or in respect of the agent. In respect of the object it may imply a ..."

2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1890)
"Hence a double contradiction : firstly, a contradiction between the primari- ness of self-conscious cognisance of a thing, as the beginning of possible ..."

3. The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach, George Eliot (1855)
"THE Sacraments are a sensible presentation of that contradiction of idealism ... Hence the contradiction in the sacraments carries us back to the primary ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE SPIRIT OF Contradiction. A TALE. THE very silliest things in life ... Blows carry strong and quick conviction, And mar the pow'rs of contradiction. ..."

5. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"Every judgment is a determination of being, but in form is an identity ; hence arises a contradiction between form and content. Is this contradiction real ..."

6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1912)
"Contradiction is then a purely negative criterion of existence; it is the criterion of ... Thus existence appears as the criterion of non-contradiction. ..."

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