Sentence examples for hidden contradiction from inspiring English sources
Russell's discovery of a hidden contradiction in Frege's attempt to formalize set theory, with the help of his simple comprehension scheme, caused some mathematicians to wonder how one could make sure that no other contradictions existed.
He argued that our everyday conceptions of the world (as well as those more refined ones common among his philosophical predecessors) contain hidden contradictions which appear, fatally, when we try to think out their consequences.
For another, the folksy paraphrase Lewis uses isn't obviously innocuous; like many other abstraction principles it could be hiding a contradiction.
The history seems, at least to this inexpert viewer, solid enough, and Mr. Watkins does not hide the contradictions of the Commune to create a naïvely utopian vision of the movement.
Minimal inconsistent sets have been the main tool to localise inconsistency, but we argue that they are like the exposed part of an iceberg, failing to capture contradictions hidden under the water.
What Peirce's new approach is, in mathematical detail, and whether or not it contains hidden but real contradictions, is a problem that has not yet been solved by researchers into Peirce's logic and mathematics.
For decades, Jews succeeded in hiding from themselves the contradiction between their national movement and Lydda.
Very often hidden curriculum offers opposite values from the formal one, which can lead students to perceive their studies as based on inconsistencies, contradictions and double-bind messages.
But Tocqueville also believed that American expansion westward was blessed by God, and though Damrosch's book never hides its subject's contradictions from the reader, it slightly obscures this less appealing figure.
People who think they can hide in the policy's contradictions are sooner or later exposed.
