Sentence examples for contradiction in terms of from inspiring English sources

Strawson favours explaining 'P entails Q' as "P and not Q' is self contradictory', and explains or elucidates the notion of self contradiction in terms of sentences saying nothing, in effect, they give and then take back simultaneously.

There is, however, in Wittgenstein's thinking an inclination to think of contradiction in terms of the disintegration of sense, so that even argument by reductio might be understood not in terms of falsehood.

We present an explanation for this apparent contradiction in terms of a unique state of COads on this surface, which is not the same state of COads as occurs on either PtRu or pure Pt surfaces.

It was a contradiction in terms to speak of satisfying Herr Hitler.

It is probably a contradiction in terms to speak of an "ordinary" childhood.

What interests Mitchell about Our Men "is the genuinely funny and dark contradictions in terms of what Britain's representatives are expected to do on our behalf.

However, there were contradictions in terms of the policies involved and the way they were implemented.

The article points to contradictory self-images and explains those contradictions in terms of discrepant notions of norm commitments on one side and narratives of national self-centeredness and self-interest on the other.

But the report breezily put this sum into perspective: "It is almost a contradiction in terms to suppose that an expenditure of five or six million, in ten or twenty years, can be a serious consideration to a million men, enjoying one of the richest soils and finest climates under heaven".

I wasn't as happy with the revisions, but it's not my show, you have to sort of adjust, even if sometimes it does seem a bit of a contradiction in terms for what your character is supposed to be about".

The judgment that day set what seemed like a new benchmark: "If the person or persons who receive or read it, (the message) or may reasonably be expected to receive, or read it, would brush it aside as a silly joke, or a joke in bad taste, or empty bombastic or ridiculous banter, then it would be a contradiction in terms to describe it as a message of a menacing character".