contradiction
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Is contradiction a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.Examples: "His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting."countableuncountable
2. (countable) 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.Examples: "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."; "There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single."Synonyms: oxymoroncountable
3. (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.Examples: "Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism."countable
4. (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.Synonyms: ↯, ⇒⇐, ⊥, ↮, ※countable
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