📖 Definitions of "Contradiction"
noun
- 1
The act of contradicting.
"His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting."
- 2
A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that makes a claim that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
"There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion, and at the same time she should not have that right."
- 3
A logical inconsistency 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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