contradiction
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English
Etymology
From Middle English contradiccioun, contradiction, from Old French contradiction, from Latin contrādictiō, from contrādīcō (“speak against”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Noun
contradiction (countable and uncountable, plural contradictions)
- (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims 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.
- There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.
- (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
- (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
Synonyms
- (statement that contradicts itself): oxymoron
- (proposition that is false for all values of its variables): ↯, ⇒⇐, ⊥, ↮, ※
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "proposition that is false for all values of its variables"): tautology
Coordinate terms
- (proposition that is false for all values of its variables): contingency, tautology
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Translations
act of contradicting
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statement that contradicts itself
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the logical incompatibility of opposing elements
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proposition that is false for all values of its variables
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contradictiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
contradiction f (plural contradictions)
- contradiction (clarification of this definition is needed)
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Further reading
- “contradiction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.