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- noun Plural form of
contradictory .
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Examples
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Whether DeQuincey's writings achieve a similar suspension of contradictories is not a question for this essay to consider, but the fact that L. E.L.'s "Verses" does so is the central aesthetic feature of the poem.
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Also all things would on this view be one, as has been already said, and man and God and trireme and their contradictories will be the same.
Metaphysics Aristotle 2002
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"I have learnt that the place wherein Thou art found unveiled is girt round with the coincidence of contradictories, and this is the wall of Paradise wherein Thou dost abide."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Some authors prevented such cases by maintaining that not only were terms unable to refer to the propositions in which they occurred, they also could not refer to the contradictories of the propositions in which they occurred.
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
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Since it is possible that ˜p™ coheres with the belief system of S while ˜not-p™ coheres with the belief system of S*, the coherentist account seems to imply, absurdly, that contradictories, ˜p™ and
The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009
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What spurred him to this was that in the assertoric syllogistic Aristotle and others sometimes used contradictories of absolute propositions on the assumption that they are absolute; and that was why so many decided that absolutes did contradict absolutes.
Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic Street, Tony 2008
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It also preserves our intuition on contradictoriness, in the form: A and B are contradictories iff, if A is true, B is false, and if A is false, B is true.
Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008
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For it is common with princes (saith Tacitus) to will contradictories, Sunt plerumque regum voluntates vehementes, et inter se contrariae.
The Essays 2007
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As Plotter points out, you are describing the difference between contraries and contradictories from the Square of Opposition.
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A and O, and E and I, are pairs of contradictories.
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