English-Russian translations for contradiction

• противоре́чие
• контрадикция
• противоречие

Definition of contradiction

• The act of contradicting
• A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that makes a claim that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms
• A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions
• A proposition that is false for all values of its variables

Examples

• His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
• There is a contradiction in Clarence Pages statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion, and at the same time she should not have that right.
• There is a contradiction in what you say: she cant be both married and single.
• Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.

Related words

• contradict
• contradictory
• self-contradictory
• contradictoriness
• contradictorily
• autocontradictory
• contradiction in terms
• contradictory (to the original) newer statement
• proof by contradiction