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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Contradiction \Con`tra*dic"tion\, n. [L. contradictio answer,
objection: cf F. contradiction.]
1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or
affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion;
contrary declaration; gainsaying.
His fair demands Shall be accomplished without
contradiction. --Shak.
2. Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency;
incongruity or contrariety; one who or that which is
inconsistent.
can be make deathless death? That were to make
Strange contradiction. --Milton.
We state our experience and then we come to a manly
resolution of acting in contradiction to it
--Burke.
Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be
true. --Hobbes.
Of contradictions infinite the slave. --Wordsworth.
{Principle of contradiction} (Logic), the axiom or law of
thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same
time, or a thing must either be or not be or the same
attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and
denied of the same subject.
Note: It develops itself in three specific forms which have
been called the ``Three Logical Axioms.'' First ``A is
A.'' Second ``A is not Not-A'' Third ``Everything is
either A or Not-A.''
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
contradiction
n 1: opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
2: (in logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the
statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a
contradiction" [syn: {contradiction in terms}]
3: the speech act of contradicting someone "he spoke as if he
thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
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