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contradiction
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “There is no contradiction between my views on this and that of my professor.”
      “Infinity thus receives the determination of the finite, for it is the contradiction of the finite issuing into itself ad infinitum.”
      “He issued a contradiction to a news item that his committee had set up an expert group to assess the prevailing state of nuclear technology.”
contradictory
contradick
  1. An obnoxious person who routinely contradicts him or herself or others.
contradictiousness
  1. The state or quality of being contradictious.
contradictoriness
  1. The state or quality of being contradictory.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One aim is to introduce students to genuine historical complexity and the contradictoriness of the woman writer's position then and now.”
      “In this article, the author seeks to refute this principle and show its inherent contradictoriness.”
      “In a sense the very contradictoriness of these passages returns us to the theme of flux which they had seemed to deny.”
contradictedness
  1. The state or quality of being contradicted.
contradictor
  1. Alternative form of contradicter
  2. Examples:
    1. “In our submission, the proposition can be put this way, that the Tribunal, as you point out, does not have a contradictor.”
      “I think Sir Harry Gibbs said something about the necessity for a contradictor, too, in one of those injunction cases.”
      “Your Honours heard from our learned friend, Mr Bain, that the obvious contradictor, Mr Hurst, has not appeared on this application.”
contradicter
  1. One who contradicts.
contradictions
  1. plural of contradiction
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He laughs at his own contradictions, a lot more comfortable in his own skin these days.”
      “Bundock pointed out a number of inconsistencies and contradictions in the testimony.”
      “Rather, he revels in confounding his audience and the media, cultivating a persona rife with contradictions.”
contradictories
  1. plural of contradictory
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He entitles this kind of opposition dialectical, and that of contradictories analytical.”
      “Following Aristotle, he announced that the primary principle of reasoning is that contradictories cannot both be true.”
      “God can make either of them true, but he can't make both of them true, since they are contradictories.”
contradictors
  1. plural of contradictor
contradicters
  1. plural of contradicter
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