Definition of Contrediction
Con`tra*dic"tion (?), n. [L.
contradictio answer, objection: cf. F.
contradiction.] 1. An assertion of
the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the
truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration;
gainsaying.
His fair demands
Shall be accomplished without contradiction.
Shak.
2. Direct opposition or repugnancy;
inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that
which, is inconsistent.
can he make deathless death? That were to make
Strange contradiction.
Milton.
We state our experience and then we come to a
manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.
Burke.
Both parts of a contradiction can not
possibly be true.
Hobbes.
Of contradictions infinite the slave.
Wordsworth.
Principle of contradiction (Logic),
the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and
not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not
be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed
and and denied of the same subject. It develops itself in
three specific forms which have been called the "Three Logical
Axioms." First, "A is A." Second, "A is not Not-A"
Third, "Everything is either A or Not-A."
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (uncountable) The act of contradicting.
His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- (logic; countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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