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What does contradiction mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
  2. (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that makes a claim that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
  3. (countable) a logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions
  4. (logic) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
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And the basic contradiction is the contradiction between the doing and the denial of doing, life and death.
And there does seem to be a pretty flat contradiction between those two points.
In spite of this obvious contradiction the time paradox was enthusiastically accepted.
As an observer, I can testify that the comments made by these powerful and successful people were in flat contradiction to the caricature.
A strange contradiction emerged as the art was praised while those who created it were degraded.
This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron.

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