Sentence examples for contradiction upon from inspiring English sources

Thought itself forces this emphasis on contradiction upon us, he says.

Frege's reaction made very clear the profound impact of this contradiction upon the logicist program.

"Legally dead but biologically viable" may seem an impossible contradiction but upon death many cells are still alive.

Rather, adaptations tend to respond to textual ambiguities or contradictions, playing upon the multilayered meanings to be found within the seeming simplicity of children's books.

This state of affairs is in complete contradiction to the Koran, upon which our laws are supposed to be based.

Filtered through Cai, however, it evokes a state of mind capacious enough to smile benignly upon every possible contradiction.

Contradiction or amplification might have borne upon petitioner's knowledge of the contents of the package or might have tended to show an entrapment.

I should like, instead, to reflect on a contradiction that we are being called upon to face this evening.

Awash in the nautical lexicon are a sea of oxymorons -- small gale, light anchor, jumbo shrimp -- that at first take seem like contradictions, but which upon further review are marvels of concise description.

She justifies this claim based upon the PC: 'there is no contradiction in the divisibility of extended things,' and atoms are extended thing (IP §121).

These discussions focus upon how these theories remove the contradiction between subconsciously motivated 'self-mutilation' and the 'pleasure principle' that supposedly rules the unconscious (ibid.: 428 9).