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What does self-defeating mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of a plan or action: containing elements that will cause it to fail; destined not to succeed by its very nature.
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And for science to produce a hypothesis that claims that doxastic states don't exist would be illogical and self-defeating.
Rather than being self-defeating, successful players are their own best friends.
If you value a higher number of automobiles on the highways and also assign high scores to clean air, it is more self-defeating criteria.
Because self-improvement tastes best with a piquant little sprinkle of something self-defeating on top.
It's sort of like an appendage, and no matter how burdensome or self-defeating it is, it's just there.
Last week, I explained how violent acts of revolution would be self-defeating.

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