noncontradiction
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of noncontradiction
First recorded in 1830–40; non- + contradiction
Example Sentences
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Need we accept the law of noncontradiction?
From Scientific American
Dialetheists reject the law of noncontradiction and claim that rather than expelling contradictions from every corner of rationality, we should embrace them as peculiar types of statements that are occasionally true and false simultaneously.
From Scientific American
The most modern Reconcilers venture upon is to affirm, that some quite different sense may he put upon the words; and that this non-natural sense may, with a little trouble, be manipulated into some sort of noncontradiction of scientific truth.
From Project Gutenberg
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