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noun
- (uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
- There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- (logic) (countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
Translations: - French: contradiction
(trans-bottom)
- Italian: contraddizione
- German: Widerspruch
- Spanish: contradicción
(trans-bottom)
(trans-top, proposition that is false for all values of its variables)
Etymology: From contradictionem, from contradicere.
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