01 n. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gain…
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An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.“His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction.” — Shak.
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Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.“can he make deathless death? That were to make Strange contradiction.” — Milton.“We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.” — Burke.“Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.” — Hobbes.“Of contradictions infinite the slave.” — Wordsworth.
Phrases & compounds
Principle of contradiction —
the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and denied of the same subject; also called the law of the excluded middle.