law of contradiction

American  

noun

Logic.

1. the law that a proposition cannot be both true and false or that a thing cannot both have and not have a given property.

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Example Sentences

The law of contradiction, after all, is not enforceable; if it were the jails would overflow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2016

The most signal defect of monophysite method is its unquestioning submission to the Aristotelian law of contradiction.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

God has to submit to the logical law of contradiction, and He cannot, according to the theologians, cause two and two to make either more or less than four.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

The law of contradiction does not apply in-the-lived-experienced-world.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

Agreement with this view violates the law of contradiction; denial of it implies that two moments can be immediately adjacent.

From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various