Contradiction

(noun.) the speech act of contradicting someone; 'he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction'.

(noun.) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; 'the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction'.

(noun.) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas.

录入:昆西

• If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• For that is a contradiction in terms, and suppose that the senses continue to operate, even after they have ceased all manner of operation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Has he ever persisted in anything except from contradiction? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Thus we are led to infer that the contradiction is an appearance only, and witchery of the senses. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The sick man seemed to fall into a gap of death, at her contradiction. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• First, the contradiction must be at the same time and in the same relation. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But have we not here fallen into a contradiction? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• An industrial revolution analogous to that in manufacture during the nineteenth century is distinctly probable, and capitalistic agriculture may soon cease to be a contradiction in terms. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is no contradiction, therefore, in extending the same doctrine to all the perceptions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This contradiction I endeavour to reconcile, after the following manner. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I said; how shall we find a gentle nature which has also a great spirit, for the one is the contradiction of the other? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The supposition of the continued existence of sensible objects or perceptions involves no contradiction. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contradictions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• He explains the perplexities and contradictions of life as a conflict of light and darkness, Ormuzd was God and Ahriman Satan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You will soon be rid, now, of me and my contradictions. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But there were plenty of contradictions in his imaginative demands. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• These were perplexities and contradictions that I could not account for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• That is a contradiction in terms; and even implies the flattest of all contradictions, viz. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The bulk of these new Bible students took what their consciences approved from the Bible and ignored its riddles and contradictions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Others, perhaps, or myself, upon more mature reflections, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• That was what I meant when I spoke of stimulants to the intellect; I was thinking of the contradictions which arise in perception. 柏拉图. 理想国.

编辑:摩尔