Sentence examples for explicit contradictions from inspiring English sources

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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?

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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.

It would be surprising if any member of the Supreme Court would take the petitioners' wholly unsubstantiated assertions about Sen. Nelson's critical role in the passage of the ACA at face value, particularly in light of his direct and explicit contradiction of those assertions.

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).

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

Prove the absence of explicit losses by contradiction.

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