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Self-contradictory   /sɛlf-kˌɑntrədˈɪktəri/   Listen
Self-contradictory

adjective
1.
Seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true.  Synonym: paradoxical.
2.
In disagreement.  Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, contradictory.  "Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"






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"Self-contradictory" Quotes from Famous Books



... brings me at last to a cardinal fact in the constitution of deserts which is almost always utterly misconceived in Europe. Most people at home picture the desert to themselves as wholly dead, flat, and sandy. To talk about the fauna and flora of Sahara sounds in their ears like self-contradictory nonsense. But, as a matter of fact, that uniform and lifeless desert of the popular fancy exists only in those sister arts that George II.—good, practical man—so heartily despised, 'boetry and bainting.' The desert of real life, though less impressive, is far more ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... conception of any environment at all, and consequently could have no recognition of our own existence. The confusion of thought involved even in the attempt to state such a condition shows it to be perfectly inconceivable, for the simple reason that it is self-contradictory and self-destructive. On this account it is clear that our own existence and that of the world around us necessarily implies the presence of a Universal Mind acting on certain fixed lines of its own which establish the basis for the working of all individual minds. This paramount action ...
— The Creative Process in the Individual • Thomas Troward



Words linked to "Self-contradictory" :   paradoxical, contradictory, inexplicable, incomprehensible, inconsistent, conflicting



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