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Definition of Self-contradictory

1. Adjective. Seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true. "It is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking"

2. Adjective. In disagreement. "Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"

Definition of Self-contradictory

1. Adjective. Of statements that contradict themselves, ultimately logically corrupting the statement. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-contradictory

self-confidence self-confident self-confidently self-congratulate self-congratulation self-congratulatory self-conjugate self-conscious self-consciously self-consciousness

self-consistent self-contained self-contemplation self-contempt self-contradiction self-contradictory (current term) self-control self-controlled self-critical self-criticism

self-cultivation self-curing resin self-deal self-dealing self-deceit self-deception self-deceptions self-defeating self-defence self-defense

Literary usage of Self-contradictory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Of course, evasive, or self-contradictory testimony of the witness affects his credibility, and may indicate fraud. In re Friedman. 21 ABR 213, 164 Fed. ..."

2. The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man by Samuel Harris (1883)
"It follows that a partial agnosticism necessarily involves complete agnosticism, and is therefore self-contradictory and untenable. ..."

3. Problems of Religion: An Introductory Survey by Durant Drake (1916)
"Is science based upon unproved and self-contradictory postulates? Trustworthy as the method of logic may be, however, the truth of any conclusion will be ..."

4. The Concept of Knowledge by Panayot Butchvarov (1970)
"But let us insist that by a self-contradictory proposition the theory mean a ... Now, indeed, all propositions the denial of which is self-contradictory are ..."

5. The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man by Samue Harris (1883)
"... complete agnosticism, and is therefore self-contradictory and untenable. ... it is exposed as false and self-contradictory and discredited in all its ..."

6. Essays, Lectures, Etc. Upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Language of the Scriptures peculiar or self-contradictory.—The result of Unitarian and Trinitarian attempts to explain it.—The sacred writers give no ..."

7. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace=book ... for the Use of by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"... 97 —" Dualism might be called a logical alternative of creation, but for the fact that ita notion of two goda in self-contradictory, and leads to the ..."

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