Definition of contradiction

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Contradiction (n.) An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.

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Absurdity :: Absurdity (n.) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
Contradiction :: Contradiction (n.) An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
Contradictions :: Contradictions (a.) Inclined to contradict or cavi.
Contradiction :: Contradiction (n.) Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent..
Antilogy :: Antilogy (n.) A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
Undersay :: Undersay (v. t.) To say by way of derogation or contradiction.
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
Apodictical :: Apodictical (a.) Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.
Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
Apodictically :: Apodictically (adv.) So as to be evident beyond contradiction.
Entrap :: Entrap (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men..
Self-contradiction :: Self-contradiction (n.) The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction..
Contradictional :: Contradictional (a.) Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing.
Recantation :: Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
Harmonize :: Harmonize (v. t.) To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
Clash :: Clash (n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc..
Reproof :: Reproof (n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
Antinomy :: Antinomy (n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience..
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