contradictory

Examples

• All

• In application to human conduct, permissibility and wrongness are contradictories.

  Academic text (2018)

• They cannot be integrated, as can spirit and matter, or the masculine and feminine dimensions of the personality, which are not contradictories, but contraries.

  Academic text (1993)

• The Case of the Curious Contradictory

  Blog text (16)

• There's the contradictory statement, the not statement, not The die shows an even face.

• Good and evil remain contradictories.

  Academic text (1993)

• To establish the one means eradicating the other, the coming together of these contradictories being impossible.

  Blog text (21)

• At a very innocuous level, we can speak of the fictional exploration of contradictories included within modal truth.

  Academic text (1995)

• However, in line with most other philosophers who write on these issues, I also apply the phrase 'moral conflict' to any situation in which P simultaneously bears moral duties whose contents are contraries rather than contradictories.

  Academic text (2018)

• The statements made by the two witnesses were contradictory, making it difficult to determine the truth of what happened.

• In her argument, she presented several contradictory claims that confused the audience about her position.

Synonyms

C

contradiction

vscontradictory

117 4.3

A situation where two ideas or statements cannot both be true

describes a statement as directly opposed to another rather than naming the situation

A

antinomy

vscontradictory

• Formal

1 9.9

A conflict between two ideas that both seem true

describes a single proposition in direct opposition rather than two reasonable principles

How Consistent

compatible

112 4.1

harmonious

14 4.2

consonant

3 6.0

inconsistent

96 4.7

contradictory

• Specialized

8.2

incompatible

1 5.1

Surface Forms

Etymology