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US
/ˌkɑntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
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[ UK /kˌɒntɹədˈɪkʃən/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒntɹədˈɪkʃən/ ]
NOUN
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(logic) a statement that is necessarily false
the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction - opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
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the speech act of contradicting someone
he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction
How To Use contradiction In A Sentence
- Does anybody see the contradiction is the Lefts attack on seniors who use Medicare? Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
- We do need to show that we can talk without contradiction of God's universal salvific will and the scandalous particularity of the incarnate and risen Lord.
- Nkrumah saw this as a contradiction, and was critical, thus annoying Nyerere who should have been a natural ally.
- But as Leider's impressive research and masterful writing shows, off-screen he was full of contradictions.
- His system admits no contradiction between free will and determinism, the God of philosophy and that of the Quran.
- There is a contradiction here, both within his statements and with the biblical text.
- The problem is that some of these shared assumptions are loaded with inconsistencies and contradictions.
- Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
- The true augmented sixth and the true cadence gain in significance as a contradiction to the false cadencing around the mediant.
- This seeming contradiction within the document may perhaps be explained in the following manner. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa