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Self-contradiction   Listen
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Self-contradiction  n.  The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.






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"Self-contradiction" Quotes from Famous Books



... CAUSA SUI is the best self-contradiction that has yet been conceived, it is a sort of logical violation and unnaturalness; but the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with this very folly. The desire for "freedom of will" in the superlative, metaphysical sense, such as still ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche



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