Sentence examples for explicit contradiction from inspiring English sources

Not only were these mistaken policies; they were in explicit contradiction with Mr Williamson's list.Elsewhere, the reforms did bring lasting benefits.

This is in explicit contradiction of the "fair fuel stabiliser" approach propounded during the last parliament, when ministers explained why – time and again – they had cancelled planned petrol duty rises in the face of rising oil costs.

This may not be an explicit contradiction, but it should be worrying all the same.

But, secondly, although the denial of a genuinely analytic claim may well be a "contradiction," it isn't clear what makes it so: there is no explicit contradiction in the thought of a married bachelor, in the way that there is in the thought of a bachelor who is not a bachelor.

But the common core thought is the following: even though the Liar is a sentence such that, if it were true, it would be false, and vice versa, no explicit contradiction according to which it is both true and false need follow.

In other passages Bolzano seems to be less cautious and claims also of an idea such as [Vesuvius] (WL II, 38) or [Socrates] (WL I, 260, in explicit contradiction to WL III, 89) to be a pure intuition whose appearance in the mind of a thinking being is a subjective intuition.

The consequence of this line of thinking for moral theory is that we have a test by which to determine whether we have realized ourselves in a particular case: namely, have we arrived at a greater unity, which means fewer felt contradictions or explicit contradictions in our desires, our dispositions and the like?

A still more specific definition has it that an impossible world is a world that realizes explicit logical contradictions - in the simplest case: where sentences of the form A and ¬A hold, against the Law of Non-Contradiction (see e.g. Lycan 1994).

Prove the absence of explicit losses by contradiction.

That is, the doctrine seems to contain explicit or implicit contradictions.

Thus, this method using IDs could constitute an integration of the advantages of the aforementioned approaches considering that it assesses conflict in a way which is not based in the explicit wording of a contradiction or conflict by the interviewees but by means of more implicit associations among their specific self-generated goals (personal constructs).