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CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false
Example:
the statement 'he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction
Synonyms:
contradiction; contradiction in terms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("contradiction in terms" is a kind of...):
falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)
Domain category:
logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contradiction in terms"):
antinomy (a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable)
paradox ((logic) a statement that contradicts itself)
