What is "contradictions"

Usage examples of "contradictions".

When facts conflict, contradict one another, melt into one another as the colours of the spectrum so insensibly that none can say where one begins and the other ends, contradictions in terms become first fruits of thought and speech.

I sat down beside him, and pointed out the various incoherencies and contradictions of the work, and the doctrine it espoused: so long and so earnestly did I speak that at length Aubrey looked up, seemingly cheered and relieved.

Spencer doubtless saw that he was involved in contradiction in terms, and having always understood that contradictions in terms were very dreadful things - which, of course, under some circumstances they are - thought it well so to express himself that his readers should be more likely to push on than dwell on what was before them at the moment.

Spencer are objectionable, not on the ground of their being contradictions at all, but on the ground of their being blinked, and used unintelligently.

But it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice.

Like many philosophies from the south, it is riddled with superstitions and contradictions, so that no thinking man could subscribe to such foolishness.

He yelled in fury when he remembered his contradictions, and he was bitterly hurt when he was reminded of them.

I did not know anything more about music, only about finger exercises, difficult tasks, contradictions in the theory of harmony, and tedious piano lessons from a sarcastic teacher who saw in my efforts a waste of time.

There were indeed hours and days and nights when I still seemed to be confronted by an insurmountable barrier and with a tired brain I struggled vainly against contradictions and pitfalls, but I did not despair again and I saw the narrow path become clearer and more accessible.

Finally, as between variants among the myths themselves, it's in their contradictions that one may seek their sense.

It seems to me not impossible to avoid these absurdities and contradictions, if it be admitted, that there is no such thing as abstract or general ideas, properly speaking.

Lady Claris's mind was a snarl of contradictions, her beliefs seemingly created by twisting the truth in knots.

But we were speaking about the contradictions inherent to agriculture.

A paradise fraught with creative tension, with powerful contradictions that can really get the juices flowing.