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noun

Contradiction n.

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. "His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction."

Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent. "can he make deathless death? That were to make Strange contradiction." "We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it." "Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true." "Of contradictions infinite the slave."

Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and denied of the same subject; also called the law of the excluded middle. Note: It develops itself in three specific forms which have been called the "Three Logical Axioms." First, "A is A." Second, "A is not Not-A" Third, "Everything is either A or Not-A."

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