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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The absence of contradiction.
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Examples
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We should practice "non-contradiction," not because we have no differences with the Right.
Lawrence Lessig: A Letter to the #Occup(iers): The principle of Non-contradiction Lawrence Lessig 2011
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But also a commitment to non-contradiction: We need to build and define this movement not by contradicting the loudest and clearest anger on the Right, but instead, by finding the common ground in our demands for reform.
Lawrence Lessig: A Letter to the #Occup(iers): The principle of Non-contradiction Lawrence Lessig 2011
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He waxed eloquent on knowable truth, the law of non-contradiction, and the law of the excluded middle, but she smiled and shook her head — she knew only relativism and pluralism.
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But because the new Tolerance actually means acceptance of everyone's beliefs and behaviors, it invariably requires its adherents to jettison the principle of non-contradiction, foundational to logical thought since Parmenides.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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But because the new Tolerance actually means acceptance of everyone's beliefs and behaviors, it invariably requires its adherents to jettison the principle of non-contradiction, foundational to logical thought since Parmenides.
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Williams will now try to repeal the law of non-contradiction.
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Even the mighty Jordanes must obey the law of non-contradiction.
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009
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The principle of non-contradiction would seem to suggest, accordingly, that either the critic who offers a “very queer” reading and then confirms it as “significantly more meaningful,” or the critic who denies the reading, is mistaken.
Whether true or not 2009
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Even the mighty Jordanes but obey the law of non-contradiction.
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009
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But because the new Tolerance actually means acceptance of everyone's beliefs and behaviors, it invariably requires its adherents to jettison the principle of non-contradiction, foundational to logical thought since Parmenides.
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