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Contradiction

In traditional logic, a contradiction involves a proposition conflicting either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias. Illustrating a general tendency in applied logic. The law of noncontradiction states that "It is impossible that the same thing can at the same time both belong and not belong…

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China's contradictions

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Contradiction

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see also · 15
Contradiction → Argument Clinic, Concept, Figure, In, Inconsistent, Literary, Logic, Logically, Mao ZedongOxymoron, Monty Python, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Problem-solving, Type, View, Word
related to China's contradictions · 14
Contradiction → Chu, Confucian, Confucianism, Han Fei, Han Feizi, If, It, Nan, Shun, State, The, Thus, When, Yao
related to External links · 11
Contradiction → Edward, EMS Press, Encyclopedia, Horn, In Zalta, ISSN, Laurence, Mathematics, OCLC, Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia
related to Proof by contradiction · 10
Contradiction → For, Proof, Reciprocals, Sigma, Square, The, Therefore, This, Trying, Using
related to history · 8
Contradiction → But, By, Dionysodorus, In, Indeed, Plato's Euthydemus, Refute, Socrates
related to Symbolic representation · 7
Contradiction → Boolean, In, It, Leftarrow, Opq, Rightarrow, Some
related to Dialectical materialism · 5
Contradiction → According, Hegelianism, In, Marxist, This
related to In formal logic · 3
Contradiction → In, Since, This
related to Outside formal logic · 2
Contradiction → Colloquial, Proof
related to Pragmatic contradictions · 1
Contradiction → An

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Shuninstance ofparticularly its idealization of sage rulers0.80text
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