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