Thesaurus / contradictories
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synonyms for contradictories
- reversal
- about-face
- antipode
- antithesis
- back
- bottom
- contra
- contradiction
- contradictory
- contrary
- converse
- counter
- flip-flop
- inverse
- overturning
- rear
- regression
- retrogression
- retroversion
- reversion
- switch
- turn
- turnabout
- turning
- underside
- verso
- volte-face
- antipole
- change of mind
- counterpole
- flip side
- other side
- reversement
- turnaround
- wrong side
- antipode
- contra
- contradictory
- contrary
- contrast
- converse
- counter
- inverse
- reverse
- antipole
- flip side
- other side
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How to use contradictories in a sentence
There can be no question of the importance of showing that two contraries or contradictories may in certain cases be both true.
SOPHISTPLATOIt was in view of such perplexities as these that Aristotle set forth the true contradictories of his four Modals.
LOGIC, INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVEWILLIAM MINTOContradictories are never both true, or both false, but always one is true, the other false.
MENTAL PHILOSOPHY: INCLUDING THE INTELLECT, SENSIBILITIES, AND WILLJOSEPH HAVENThis is the reason why two beliefs which are each other's contradictories have the same objective.
THE ANALYSIS OF MINDBERTRAND RUSSELLHere we come again to the idea of miracle, which unites contradictories.
THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITYLUDWIG FEUERBACHIn each case one or the other of the two contradictories is not real.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE:ALFRED PLUMMERNor is their unity in contradictories, there being a repugnance in the very statement.
THE SARVA-DARSANA-SAMGRAHAMADHAVA ACHARYAThey are contradictories, that is, one must be, to the exclusion of the other.
KNOW THE TRUTH; A CRITIQUE OF THE HAMILTONIAN THEORY OF LIMITATIONJESSE H. JONESFor contradictories are positive and negative in essence and, when least ambiguously stated, also in form.
LOGICCARVETH READThere is a term in logic—dichotomy—a sharp division, a cutting in two, an opposing of contradictories.
MRS. MAXON PROTESTSANTHONY HOPE