contradictory
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These contradictory impressions persist in the new production of “Waiting in the Wings,” running in repertory at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum through Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mr. Morris said in a statement that such music “happens to be vast, contradictory, and full of invention, so there’s plenty to work with.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
"Markets are once again being forced to trade two seemingly contradictory stories on the same screen," said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The researchers say these seemingly contradictory cosmological puzzles may actually point toward the same conclusion.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The events that followed have a dreamlike quality in people’s memories, and the memories are contradictory.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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The principle of the contradictoriness of identity and the identity of contradictories is the essence of the hegelian system.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
For it would follow that contradictories can exist at the one time: for the "definition of a thing is what its name expresses," as is said in Metaph. iv.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
The two principles are merged in one, and the contradiction solved by an assertion of the identity of the contradictories.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)
Of two contradictories one or other must be true: we must either affirm or deny any one thing of any other: no mean or middle is possible.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
Co-ordinate Species, when positive, have the least contrariety; but there are also opposites, namely, negatives, contradictories and fuller contraries.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
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