Crossword clues for contraries
contraries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contraries \Con"tra*ries\ (? or ?; 48), n. pl. [Pl. of Contrary, n.] (Logic) Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.
If two universals differ in quality, they are
contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a
tree. These can never be both true together; but they
may be both false.
--I. Watts.
Contrary \Con"tra*ry\, n.; pl. Contraries.
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A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave.
--Shak. An opponent; an enemy. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.
--Locke.-
(Logic) See Contraries.
On the contrary, in opposition; on the other hand.
--Swift.To the contrary, to an opposite purpose or intent; on the other side. ``They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary.''
--Bp. Stillingfleet.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of contrary English)
Usage examples of "contraries".
For though wood and stone differ, they are not contraries, like black and white, the one of which colors is produced in the stones, while the other is produced in the wood by the same action of fire, which imparts its own brightness to the former, while it begrimes the latter, and which could have no effect on the one were it not fed by the other.
Eierkopf agreed that Commencement Gate, whatever and wherever it might be, could not imaginably be wide enough to admit contraries: Entelechus's Second and Third Logical Laws forbade the possibility.
Not to seem disrespectful of his age and genius (but also to drive my point home), I declared myself in his debt for this position of mine: surely the blurring of distinctions, especially between contraries, was flunking -- hence Maurice Stoker's devotion to that activity.
To distinguish Tick from Tock, East Campus from West, Grand Tutor from goat, appearance from reality (or whatever contraries were involved in seeing through My Ladyship) -- all these tasks, like my sundry concomitant advisings, were but ways of saying, "Passage is Passage, Failure Failure: let none confuse them.
But never forget what I have told you so often: our mission is to recognize contraries for what they are: first of all as contraries, but then as opposite poles of a unity.