How To Use Self-contradiction In A Sentence
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This is because liars must avoid self-contradictions.
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Or, as Schutz puts it, in what at first glance seems a self-contradiction, “while gesture fails to alter the sound of the note, it … alters the way the note sounds.”
The scientific case for live music
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It leads them down a path of self-contradiction and alienation.
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The infinite regulation of cosmos has the characteristics of source, ego restriction, criticized inherit and infinite equilibrium of objective self-contradiction.
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He starts with a letter from a reader notable both for its irrelevance and its self-contradiction.
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I would only make this specific argument from self-contradiction against someone who claimed that no mental states exist (i.e., some version of eliminative materialism), or a radical skeptic who claimed that we know nothing about mental states.
The Philosophy of Introspection, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Pritchett's main assertion contains a core of self-contradiction.
Let's Increase Poverty, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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A man fully steeped in the niceties of Austrian economics might still reject these ends, and not be forced to endure the pain of self-contradiction.
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Further, self-centeredness, self-consciousness, and self-contradiction are not wholly reducible to self-delusion in these narratives.
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This is the greatest self-contradiction I've heard all day.
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Socrates plies his interlocutors with a chain of questions, and their replies trap them into self-contradiction.
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Problem is, we see the principled irony and self-contradiction, those others only that we be fools.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Terrorfare: one more story and it’s officially a trend
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To infer that mutation and selection did the creating because nothing else was available, and then to bring God back into the picture as the omnipotent being who chose to create by mutation and selection, is to indulge in self-contradiction.
Blast From the Past
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It has much more to do with the way modernity has massively increased our capacity for muddle and self-contradiction, while making it easier than ever before to live almost entirely on the surface of existence.
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He fused two forms which often exist separately and apart, even in self-contradiction.
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That is, to be a human being means that your right to defend yourself cannot be abrogated without self-contradiction.
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He concluded the week with a self-contradiction on ABC's This Week, saying he both opposed continuation of the debt ceiling -- which would trigger a default -- and favored legislation preventing default.
Michael Sigman: Pander-monium Breaks Out Among 2012 GOP Hopefuls
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Even in the opening situation of the poem, then, generic self-contradiction makes itself emphatically apparent.
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Sometimes evolutionists are so keen to attack creationists that they don't realise their self-contradictions.
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The infinite regulation of cosmos has the characteristics of source, ego restriction, criticized inherit and infinite equilibrium of objective self-contradiction.
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In short, they were an inherently modern movement, even though their ideology and rhethorics were anti-modern (which is pretty much the self-contradiction at the heart of fascism).
Save Kiana Firouz
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Well now his self-contradictions will be in plain view, and he'll be compared not with crazy Guilianis and inept Romneys and antediluvian Huckabees, but with an attractive, dynamic young Democrat who will not let McCain corning the "straight talk" market.
McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway
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The main fault I find with the book is Namaste's own self-contradiction.
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Persistent questioning, passionate debate, direct self-contradictions, an electric atmosphere - all were there.
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Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, psychologist, and an actor who disguised compromise and dastardliness, had argued the opinions of western world by reflecting his self-contradiction.
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Setting aside the self-contradiction, what does all that mean?
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It is the same with the way she talks: the outrageous soundbite followed by the banal self-contradiction.
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I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction.
Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
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One is bound to point out that as a way of organizing reality, this deterministic view of the world suffers from certain fatal defects, primarily an easy susceptibility to self-contradiction.
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To be sure, the Times appears at least to recognize the potential for hypocrisy or self-contradiction in its statements.
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Why they need to chop it up unless they're scared of self-contradiction is beyond me.
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Fortunately, the logic on which this message rests is absurd to the point of self-contradiction.
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This is not simply incoherent and irresponsible, but a monument to self-contradiction.
A civil rights official disgraces himself
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Most of the rest of the interview is the same old canards, misleading talking points, ad hominems, undefined terms, self-contradictions, and so forth.
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But the quote above shows that Vedder is careful about trying to limit self-contradiction.
Richard Vedder, Sounding Reasonable, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Understanding that the basic unit of illogic is the contradiction-in-terms, we can define the pataphysical quirk as a use of words or phrases (reading as images or image-combinations) that generates an inherent self-contradiction in the narrative, something that renders a sentence literal nonsense.
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