contradiction

Definition:
1. Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas.
2. (logic) a statement that is necessarily false.
3. The speech act of contradicting someone.

Use 'contradiction' in a sentence:

• 1. It is actually a good lead-in to some of the techniques that Neel used, that she employed to bridge that contradiction.
• 2. Isn't that a bit of a contradiction?
• 3. I think I can say, without fear of contradiction , that.
• 4. Our lives are filled with contradiction.
• 5. Now you say you both left at ten—that's a contradiction of your last statement.
• 6. The book merely touches on the main contradiction of feudal society, it does not go into it deeply.
• 7. So here is a seeming contradiction.
• 8. Now, this apparent contradiction between geologic evidence and the stellar evolution model became known as the faint young Sun paradox.
• 9. Your attitude is in contradiction to your character.
• 10. A public service run for profit — a contradiction in terms if there ever was one.
• 11. His remark is full of contradictions and flaws.
• 12. The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
• 13. Contradictions grow in breadth and in depth.
• 14. It would be a contradiction of his Word.
• 15. How to resolve this contradiction?
• 16. People think that 's a contradiction.
• 17. The incident increased the contradictions between the two countries.
• 18. The contradictions are becoming increasingly acute.
• 19. Your reply today is in direct contradiction to what you said last week.
• 20. It's a contradiction in terms.
• 21. Ita s a contradiction in terms.
• 22. That is a choice, not a contradiction.
• 23. His speech contained many contradictions.
• 24. Each aspect of a contradiction presupposes the existence of the other aspect.
• 25. Can you explain the contradiction?
• 26. They are unable to get to the heart of a problem and naturally cannot find a way to resolve its contradictions.
• 27. This mechanism has such functions as integrating relations, resolving contradictions, superseding the old, improving efficiency.
• 28. Medicine Health System Mechanism Innovation: Special Contradiction and Way Choice.
• 29. Is that a contradiction?
• 30. The militants see no contradiction in using violence to bring about a religious state.
• 31. It is precisely in the particularity of contradiction that the universality of contradiction resides.
• 32. The contradictions are sharpening.
• 33. There are so many inherent contradictions in his arguments.
• 34. A 'nomad settlement' is a contradiction in terms.
• 35. The two aspects of every contradiction coexist in a single entity.
• 36. Attempting to resolve this contradiction, Harris concludes that Fern employed flowery rhetoric strategically to disguise her subversive goals beneath apparent conventionality.
• 37. As socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, the main contradiction facing Chinese society has evolved.
• 38. A generous miser is a contradiction in terms.
• 39. Problems occur only if a contradiction develops between a new observation, say, "That ball is blue", and the preexisting statements.
• 40. Once this principal contradiction is grasped, all problems can be readily solved.
• 41. Now you say you both left at ten ─ that's a contradiction of your last statement.
• 42. Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds, this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
• 43. Motion itself is a contradiction.
• 44. There is a contradiction between the two sets of figures.
• 45. How can we resolve this apparent contradiction?
• 46. The contradiction has become apparent.
• 47. He laid special stress on analysing the particularity of the contradiction.
• 48. Milton is also sensitive to the fact that the very phrase "Christian epic" is in some way a contradiction in terms.
• 49. His public speeches are in direct contradiction to his personal lifestyle.