Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Self-contradiction; contradiction or inconsistency between different statements by the same person or different parts of the same thing.
Wiktionary
- n. A contradiction in related terms or ideas. Usually an inconsistency in syllogisms, of a person or group supposedly of one set of ideals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.
Examples
“The aim is not to ruin arguments by opposing them, as it is the case in the Pyrrhonian ˜antilogy™, but rather to counterbalance a single opinion by taking into account other opinions.”
“Antinomy, literally counter-law, means opposition in principle or antagonism in relation, just as contradiction or antilogy indicates opposition or discrepancy in speech.”
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antilogy’.
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Rhetorical Devices
syllepsis, zeugma, trope, wellerism, anastrophe, anaphora, apostrophe, metonymy, chiasmus, antimetabole, syncope, open-list and 431 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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May 2010 (Wedding Month!!)
Just the words I meet this month, starting with cecum.
cecum, compersion, antilogy, fantods, dord, flam, ipsedixitism, quartine, glycation, neoteny, desiccation, hypovolemia and 17 more...
jmjarmstrong JM states that this is not an antilogy. Dec 17, 2010
john "Pamela Bell, the 42-year-old owner, once felt the tug of the obsessions detailed above. She lived for a few years with her three children and husband (from whom she is now divorced) in a temple to architectural perfection, a trophy penthouse apartment designed by Rogers Marvel Architects above a former music hall on East Fifth Street. But life isn’t perfect, Ms. Bell pointed out, and you can make yourself crazy chasing an antilogy."
The New York Times, When Perfect Is Not the Goal, by Penelope Green, July 10, 2008 Jul 10, 2008
gangerh Would this be like an oxymoron?
Like 'I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous'? May 16, 2008
whichbe Self-contradictory statement. (Luciferous Logolepsy) May 16, 2008