contradiction
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French contradiction, from Latin contrādictiō, from contrādīcō (“speak against”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
NounEdit
contradiction (countable and uncountable, plural contradictions)
- (uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- (countable) 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.
- There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- (countable) a logical incompatibility 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 variables.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
- (proposition that is false for all values of its variables): tautology
Coordinate termsEdit
- (proposition that is false for all values of its variables): contingency, tautology
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin contradictio.
NounEdit
contradiction f (plural contradictions)
- contradiction
External linksEdit
- “contradiction” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).