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Contradictory

adjective

Of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false.

That confounds or contradicts or confuses. Synonym: confounding.

In disagreement. Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory. "Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"

Unable to be both true at the same time. Synonym: mutually exclusive.

noun

(pl. contradictories)

Two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.

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— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... the most remarkable boyish poems that we have ever read. We know of none that can compare with them for maturity of purpose, and a nice understanding of the effects of language and metre. Such pieces are only valuable when they display what we can only express by the contradictory phrase of innate experience. We copy one of the shorter poems, written when the author was only fourteen. There is a little dimness in the filling up, but the grace and symmetry of the outline are such as few poets ever attain. There is a ...

— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell

... forgotten. When her name was mentioned among the ladies and gentlemen, the strangest stories were told, and everybody gave the most contradictory and at the same time prodigious information. She had made a conquest of the viceroy; she was reigning, in the recesses of a palace, over two hundred slaves whose heads she now and then cut off for the sake of a little amusement. No, ...

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... example, is constituted by his memories and the rest of his knowledge, by his loves and hatreds, and so on; thus, but for the objects which he knows or loves or hates, he could not be what he is. He is essentially and obviously a fragment: taken as the sum-total of reality he would be self-contradictory. ...

— The Problems of Philosophy • Bertrand Russell

... thought him obstinate and contradictory. Halting, he planted his feet as though no power on earth could move him, and shot forward his long ears. Then it seemed to me that he was trying to show how futile my boast, and in my anger I dared to kick him. A fly would have moved him as well. His long ...

— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd

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