| ADJ | contradictory | more contradictory | most contradictory |
| NOUN | contradictory | contradictories |
| SYNO | at odds | conflicting | confounding | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- According to American historian James Farr, Locke never expressed any thoughts concerning his contradictory opinions regarding slavery, which Farr ascribes to his personal involvement in the slave trade.
- Since every statement has the contradictory opposite (its negation), and since a contradictory is true when its opposite is false, it follows that the opposites of contraries (which the medievals called subcontraries, "subcontrariae") can both be true, but they cannot both be false.
- In addition, this type of work is possible according to Kumar due to the contradictory nature of media: “Media texts are contradictory, as all reality is contradictory.
- The contradictory function applied to a proposition returns its negation.
- Studies observing the effect between higher choline intake and cognition have been conducted in human adults, with contradictory results.
- As the plot unfolds, the narrator Nanapush is able to use his gift of speech to negotiate with government representatives on behalf of his people, but he often tells contradictory stories and even outright lies.
- Like Kurosawa's film, four people give contradictory accounts of a rape and murder.
- In the inferred proposition, the consequent is the contradictory of the antecedent in the original proposition, and the antecedent of the inferred proposition is the contradictory of the consequent of the original proposition.
- The rally was noted for its contradictory statements.
- Unclear, with contradictory reports from different studies.
- Men, Feminism, and Men’s Contradictory Experiences of Power” (1994 and revised in 1999) built on the argument of his book, Cracking the Armour: Power, Pain and the Lives of Men to look at the contradictory nature of men's power.
- The direct information about his life are scarce and often self-contradictory.
- A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation.
- Because its absence means filling the space with contradictory speech.
- The kettle "logic" of the dream-work is related to what Freud calls the embarrassment-dream of being naked, in which contradictory opposites are yoked together in the dream.
- A photorealistic series made of contradictory materials: Belgian linen, gesso, and Deltron.
- In 2005 Pakistani officials offered contradictory comments about whether Saifullah was still alive.
- The two statements about date and place of death are contradictory.
- Finally, paraconsistent logics provide a means of accepting some contradictory statements without exploding.
- Reason's assertions are based on universally admitted principles while contrary assertions are deduced from other universally acknowledged principles. Contradictory assertions are both false when they are based on a self–contradictory concept.
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