Sentence examples for contradictory pair from inspiring English sources

The United States added 163,000 jobs in July but the monthly unemployment rate nonetheless inched up to 8.3, a contradictory pair of figures that illustrate the muddled state of the economy.

A contradictory pair of sentences (an antiphasis) consists of an affirmation and its negation (i.e. the negation that negates of the subject what the affirmation affirms of it).

Members of a contradictory pair cannot be true or false simultaneously; contradictories "divide the true and the false between them" (see the entries on contradiction and the traditional square of opposition).

If instead for the universal we take 'Any centaur has a tail', which is true if there are no centaurs, then we do get a contradictory pair with opposite truth-values.

Following Aristotle, the medievals divide extramental beings into substances and accidents, a division which they take to be both exclusive and exhaustive (since it is given in terms of a contradictory pair of properties, namely, being in a subject vs. not being in a subject) (Cf. Categories 1, 1a20 1b6).

Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas took Aristotle to be arguing in De interpretatione 9 that if every contradictory pair divides truth and falsity in a determinate way and the members are consequently determinately true or false, all things must determinately be or not be.

Yet in an unlikely — some would say contradictory — pairing, Ms. Thompson, a Democrat from Houston known with equal parts reverence and fear in the House as "Ms. T," is considered the go-to lawmaker for the adult entertainment industry.

He therefore proposes another exception to the general thesis concerning contradictory pairs.

In Chapters 7 8, Aristotle deals with the contradictory pairs of assertoric statements which divide truth and falsity so that one is true and the other is false.

This approach may be viewed as taking 'true' and 'false' to be expressions that give rise to contrary instead of contradictory pairs of sentence.

He argues that numerous attempts by recent theologians and philosophers to interpret one of the apparently contradictory pairs in a way that makes the pair consistent always result in a lapse of orthodoxy (Anderson 2007, 11 59).