Sentence examples for which contradictions from inspiring English sources

Thomas J. Gleaton, a former professor of education at Georgia State University who developed the Pride survey, defended its methodology, saying that a "lie test" is built into the survey to detect blatant contradictions and to eliminate surveys on which contradictions are found.

As well as providing the seed of Père Ubu's name, Hébé's bungling manner, disastrous experiments and inability to control a class led Jarry to the creation of the spoof science of 'pataphysics, in which contradictions are embraced, with all possible viewpoints having equal validity.

We use this tripartite of social sustainabilities to explore ways in which contradictions and complements between them impede or promote sustainable development, and draw upon housing in urban areas as a means of explicating these ideas.

Sometimes, a further sub-distinction is made between strong paraconsistency and dialetheism (see Priest, Beall and Armour-Garb, 2004, p. 6): the former admits 'real possibilities' in which contradictions can be true; the latter makes the final step, and accepts true contradictions simpliciter, that is, contradictions that are true at the actual world.

Most relevant logicians, the Brazilian proponents of the paraconsistent logics of formal inconsistency, and those who embrace a form of logical pluralism on the nature of entailment (see Beall and Restall, 2006), can be weak paraconsistentists: they can treat inconsistent models, in which contradictions hold, as useful mathematical tools without admitting that they represent real possibilities.

Half of life is figuring out which contradictions you're willing to live with.

When Buddhism and Taoism fused to form Chan (or Zen, to give it its Japanese name), a philosophy arose in which contradiction plays a central role.

The migrant's body has become the symbolic site upon which such contradictions are enacted.

If xn−1≥xn−3, then xn+3≤xn−1, which is contradiction; If xn−3≥xn−1, then xn+1≤xn−3, which is contradiction; If x n ≥xn−2, then xn+4≤x n, which is contradiction; If xn−2≥x n, then xn+2≤xn−2, which is contradiction.

Reverie is the one way in which, without contradiction, one can want not to want.

Reverie is the one way in which, without contradiction, one can want to not want.