Sentence examples for external contradiction from inspiring English sources

Smith's lovely correction picks up on the idea of self-division (a country of opposing positions), and also on the idea of external contradiction: a wealthy island now bereft of political imagination, at once rich and poor.

He encompasses both internal and external contradictions, perhaps not an unusual Chinese predicament.

To the contemporary scientist this means that models must be free of both internal and external contradictions, and they must not depend on the vantage point of the observer.

These two determinations, however, lead to a contradiction involving external negation (See Routley 1980; Simons 1992, 185; Thrush 2001b).

Here he shows us the communist government of an unnamed east European country, with strong resemblances to the former Czechoslovakia, gradually disintegrating in the face of its internal contradictions and external protests.

Transnational impulses emphasise mobility and fluidity, but ignore the rich contradictions and external forces that activate these movements in the first place.

Transnational impulses emphasize mobility and fluidity, but ignore the rich contradictions and external forces that activate these movements in the first place.

In the passage from Ethical Studies quoted above Bradley said that in our theoretical attempts at understanding the world we want to make our set of empirical beliefs coherent, and since we assume as a working hypothesis that the external world is systematic, a contradiction in our beliefs would indicate we have not yet arrived at the coherence and consistency that is demanded.

Another common issue with the companies who push these ads is the contradiction between their external messaging and the internal ideology of the company.

Just about everyone agrees that contradictions within ideas are easier to swallow than contradictions in the external world.

While that may seem like a contradiction, the finding suggests that external factors — like family pressure, children and financial commitments such as a mortgage — may play a greater role than simple happiness in the duration of heterosexual marriages.