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  1. Self-contradiction; contradiction or inconsistency between different statements by the same person or different parts of the same thing. Philosophy was thus again reconciled with nature; consciousness was not a bundle of antilogies; certainty and knowledge were not evicted from man. Sir W. Hamilton. In these antilogies and apologies, however, a difference might be perceived: and some of the advocates of Henry appeared less anxious to attack Rome than to defend their prince. R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., vi.

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  1. from Greek ἀντιλογία, contradiction, from ἀντιλογος, contradictory, from ἀντιλέγειν, contradict, speak against, from ἀντί, against, + λέγειν, speak, say.
 

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