contradiction
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contradiction
- /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkʃən/ UK
- /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/ US
Rhymes with -ɪkʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English contradiccioun, contradiction, from Old French contradiction, from Latin contrādictiō, from contrādīcō (“speak against”).
noun contradictions
- The act of contradicting. His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms. There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion and at the same time she should not have that right.
- A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions. Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
- A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
