selfcontradictory

And no frame of mind was ever so selfcontradictory and yet so realistic as that which Dickens describes when he says, in effect, that, though Pinch knew now that there had never been such a person as Pecksniff, in his ideal sense, he could not bring himself to insult the very face and form that had contained the legend.

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 1905

From the standpoint of modern macroeconomics, particularly from the view of New Keynesian economics, that stance is potentially selfcontradictory.

Econbrowser 2009