Definition of Contradiction in terms

1. Noun. (logic) a statement that is necessarily false. "The statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"

Exact synonyms: Contradiction
Category relationships: Logic
Specialized synonyms: Antinomy, Paradox
Generic synonyms: Falsehood, Falsity, Untruth

Definition of Contradiction in terms

1. Noun. A phrase or expression in which the component words contradict one another, often unintentionally, or are claimed to do so when seen from a particular point of view. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradiction In Terms

contracyclical
contracyclically
contradance
contradances
contradancing
contradanza
contradanzas
contradict
contradictable
contradicted
contradictedness
contradicter
contradicters
contradicting
contradiction
contradiction in terms (current term)
contradictional
contradictionless
contradictions
contradictions in terms
contradictious
contradictiously
contradictiousness
contradictive
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contradictories
contradictorily
contradictoriness
contradictors
contradictory

Literary usage of Contradiction in terms

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

1. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"Fichte's teaching that reality is ultimately an absolute and singular I, which is yet impersonal, is, in truth, a contradiction in terms. ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"... we at once recognise this as involving a contradiction in terms, or as being equivalent to the assertion that there can be an effect without a cause. ..."

3. The Metropolitan (1835)
"This " contradiction in terms," therefore, on which his lordship relies for proof of ... And so it is a "contradiction in terms," to say that alphitomancy ..."

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