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adjective If you say or write something that is self-contradictory, you make two statements which cannot both be true. He is notorious for making unexpected, often self-contradictory, comments. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers You may also like English QuizConfusables Language Lover'sBlog French Translation of'self-contradictory' Translateyour text PronunciationPlaylists Word of the day: 'joie de vivre' EnglishGrammar CollinsApps

self-contradictory in British English

(ˌsɛlfkɒntrəˈdɪktərɪ ) adjective that displays inherent contradiction He is notorious for making unexpected, often self-contradictory, comments. You're being self-contradictory. She is self-contradictory and inconsistent. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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These examples have been automatically selected and may contain sensitive content that does not reflect the opinions or policies of Collins, or its parent company HarperCollins. We welcome feedback: report an example sentence to the Collins team. Read more… The marvel for Sinclair, was how self-contradictory the newspapers could be without either apparently noticing or caring. Kippax, Frank THE SCARSuch predicates can be used in general descriptions but are self-contradictory when applied to particulars.Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrant_predicateIt takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid.Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Received_Ideas Mathematicians, for example, deal with ordered structures, ensembles of elements for which rules of logico-deductive relationships hold, limited solely by being not self-contradictory.Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_spaceHe rejects theological ideas that are self-contradictory since they are literally nonsense and unintelligible.Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._SandersThe direct information about his life are scarce and often self-contradictory.Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kir_Stefan_the_SerbThe letter was widely condemned as self-contradictory, and largely ignored in the nation's capital.Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_WolmanUnder such conditions it would be self-contradictory to affirm the premises and deny the conclusion.Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity

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