contradiction
/ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/ noun B2- The act of contradicting. · His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- 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. · There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.
- A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
Plural contradictions
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And this is the more strange, since the least contradiction keeps him awake all night.”
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