单词 | self-contradiction |
释义 | self-contradictionn. The action or fact of contradicting oneself; the fact of something contradicting itself; internal inconsistency; an instance of this. Also: a statement which contains elements that contradict one another. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > contradiction self-contradiction1606 antilogy1614 bull1640 antiloquy1656 contradiction1795 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > contradiction > of oneself self-contradiction1606 1606 D. Tilenus Positions held by Bishop of Eureux To Rdr. sig. A3v It would bee as harde a thing for him to vnwrappe himselfe, from selfe-contradictions by the pen, as it is easie for him to dazell and entangle the ignorant by his tongue. 1658 J. Owen (title) A Defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of Selfe Contradiction. 1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 95 As if there were a great many Self-contradictions to be met with in the Scripture. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vii. 125 The most palpable Self-contradictions. 1747 J. Wesley Let. 25 Mar. (1931) II. 88 You mention..other instances of self-contradiction:..‘You claim and you disclaim miracles’..and..‘You are not at leisure yet either to permit or forbid to marry’. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xvii. 314 With the strange self-contradiction of human nature. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood v. 250 The superlocal presence of a body is a phrase which involves a self-contradiction, inasmuch as it excludes an essential property in the definition of body. 1919 Pacific Reporter 182 156/2 Judicial decisions dealing with prior self-contradictions may be divided into three general classes. 1938 Mind 47 196 Has there ever been a philosopher against whom critically-minded successors have not been able to bring the charge of unconscious self-contradiction? 1954 ABA Jrnl. Dec. 1070/1 The term, itself, ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’, is a self-contradiction. 2011 J. Gleick Information vi. 185 Incompleteness was real. It meant that mathematics could never be proved free of self-contradiction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1606 |
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