Contradiction
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noun


(1)   The speech act of contradicting someone
"He spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
(2)   (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
"The statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"
(3)   Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
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Noun



  1. The act of contradicting.
    His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
  2. A statement that contradicts itself.
    There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
  3. a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
    Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
  4. A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
 
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