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contradiction

[kon-truh-dik-shuhn] / ˌkɒn trəˈdɪk ʃən /


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Contradiction: The crux of the issue has always been about contradiction.

From Salon • May 12, 2024

Contradiction is at the heart of “Who Tells a Tale.”

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

Contradiction is the heart and essence of character...

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2021

His friend the historian and theorist Vincent Scully had guessed that Complexity and Contradiction would be the most important architectural text since Le Corbusier’s Vers Une Architecture.

From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2018

Open Contradiction often Conciliatory.—At the moment when a man openly makes known his difference of opinion from a well-known party leader, the whole world thinks that he must be angry with the latter.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm




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