Sentence examples for logically contradictory from inspiring English sources

All of this exposes the somewhat awkward fact that the Revolutionary era produced two different and logically contradictory "founding moments".

Recent ex-premiers are unlikely to follow Wilson into the studios because of two modern factors that would seem logically contradictory: that most leaders are now violently despised when they leave office – although Portillo overcame fears that his negative public image from politics might alienate audiences – and that they can make so much money from speeches, foundations and appointments.

Such abundance is neither logically contradictory nor refuted by experience.

He held that actually necessary truth depends on God's unconstrained will, such that even propositions that are logically contradictory might simultaneously be true.

We seem to have two unattractive options, treat all such sentences as logically contradictory or limit the move to those with normative content.

First, he shows us cases in which God's power cannot extend to the logically contradictory: even God, Crathorn says, cannot make a stone think.

There are logically two contradictory possibilities: a) Such a class as H cannot exist — exact strand symmetry applies everywhere including within a class, so that in a class there will be the same number of As as Ts and Cs as Gs.

In each case, a negative marker whose scope is narrower than the proposition determines a statement logically distinct from a simple contradictory.

Some important philosophers have thought that the very concept of a nonexistent object is contradictory (Hume) or logically ill-formed (Kant, Frege), while others (Leibniz, Meinong, the Russell of Principles of Mathematics) have embraced it wholeheartedly.

In fact, absolute non-being (the only "thing" that could be considered opposite to God) is something self-contradictory, and therefore logically impossible.

Kant indicates that what he has in mind by an "absolutely necessary being" is a being whose existence is logically necessary, where to deny its existence is contradictory.