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2 definitions found 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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