noun🔗ShareThe act of contradicting."His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting."logicphilosophystatementlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that makes a claim that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms."Saying that the pizza is both "completely gone" and "still sitting on the table" is a clear contradiction. "logicphilosophystatementlanguagecommunicationmindlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions."Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism."logicphilosophystatementChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA proposition that is false for all values of its variables."The statement "All students in this class are good at math and all students in this class are bad at math" is a contradiction. "logicphilosophymathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading