self-contradiction
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7.5
- noun
- /ˌsɛlfˌkɒntrəˈdɪkʃən/
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autocontradicción
- The politician's self-contradiction during the debate was evident when he changed his stance on key issues.
So once again, we find that if we're we just use intuitive concepts, we get trapped in self contradiction, namely nonsense.
- So once again, we find that if we're we just use intuitive concepts, we get trapped in self contradiction, namely nonsense.
- And he goes on to say this self contradiction constitutes a way of being in which the self is its own prison.
- You know, like when you have your your own self contradictions in this it's they're actually contending with each other.
Examples
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Recognizing her own self-contradiction helped her clarify her beliefs on social justice.
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But after a while, I started picking up on the holes in his reasoning and his self-contradictions.
Blog text (30) -
Therefore, to live in any other fashion would be to live in a state of self-contradiction.
Blog text (7) -
If this attitude involves me in self-contradiction, so be it.
Academic text (2007) -
Yet, as I shall show, this inevitably runs them into self-contradiction.
Academic text (1995) -
To deny this would create a self-contradiction.
Blog text (21) -
Next, we come to a pair of enormous, glaring, bald-faced self-contradictions.
Blog text (8) -
Being can't know nonbeing because it would entail a self-contradiction.
Fiction book (1991) -
Self-contradiction makes particular sense—in fact, self-contradiction is logical and appropriate—when you are talking about perceptions, interpretations, and appraisals of change.
Academic text (1998) -
Although he uses the phrase theo-democracy to suggest that Islam encompassed some democratic principles, Mawdudi himself asserted Islamic democracy to be a self-contradiction: the sovereignty of God and sovereignty of the people are mutually exclusive.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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7.1
A situation or statement that seems both true and false at the same time
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9.9
A conflict between two ideas that both seem true
A state where ideas or statements say opposite things and cannot both be true
Antonyms
How Consistent
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6.7
10
3.8
30
4.8
117
4.3
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7.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-contradiction = self + contradiction (transparent) = self + contradiction
The compound is a straightforward combination of 'self' + 'contradiction' meaning a contradiction involving oneself, which learners can derive.
Etymology
Self-contradiction comes from self- 'oneself' and contradict (from contra- 'against' and dict 'to say'). So a self-contradiction is when you say or believe things that go against each other.