Sentence examples for contradictory proposition from inspiring English sources

Despite being a live band who work in a field that traditionally lends itself to collective improvisation, Tame Impala are a more contradictory proposition: they look as if they should sound like Cream, but are in their way as orderly as the Beach Boys.

By this he means that the contradictory proposition that there is a numeral n for which 1+n ≠ n+1 is not finitarily meaningful.

The respondent would now be obliged, if he continued with the debate, to answer in accordance with the new contradictory proposition, and would refuse to concede that "God is deceived".

"I do find it extraordinary that those who want Britain to leave the EU seem to hold to two utterly contradictory propositions at the same time.

Biden, who prefers to think that being a senator and being clear are not mutually contradictory propositions, said, "My plea to John is: 'John, I don't want to hear you explain another fucking thing.

He believed that the dilemmas posed by these seemingly contradictory propositions could be resolved only by viewing them as the result of conceptual confusion between the language of logic and the language of events.

The proposition "God can produce A from his absolute power," means that it is possible for God to produce A (because A in itself entails no contradictory propositions being simultaneously true), and A is not compatible with his existing statutes.

The exact interpretation of these doctrines is controversial, as is the inference often drawn from this theory that in the world as Heraclitus conceives it contradictory propositions must be true.

Nowadays, scholars agree that there were no medieval authors who entertained the philosophically absurd theory that two contradictory propositions – one derived from philosophical investigation, the other from Christian revelation--can both be true at the same time.

Here is a table of some of the equivalences: In "The Critique of the Logical Principle of the Excluded Middle" (1913) Leśniewski distinguishes between an ontological principle – Every object is either A or not A – and a logical principle – Of two contradictory propositions, at least one must be true.

For the irrefutable foundation of reasonable thinking is the Law of Non-Contradiction, that contradictory propositions cannot simultaneously be true.