internal contradiction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinternalandcontradiction
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internal
adjective
uk/ɪnˈtɜː.nəl/us/ɪnˈtɝː.nəl/
inside ...
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contradiction
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/
the fact of something being the complete opposite of something else or very different from something else, so that one of them must ...
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(Definition ofinternalandcontradictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Such a claim would be a flagrantinternalcontradiction.
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These writers claimed - and convinced the average economist to believe - that the new welfare economics was based on a hiddeninternalcontradiction.
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The three parts, each concentrating on a single aspect of his interpretative trinity, pose major organisational problems : repetition is hard to avoid, as is a measure of apparentinternalcontradiction.
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This is a clearinternalcontradictionwhich can be clearly seen in the following hypothetical example.
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We are often told that capitalism and free society destroys itself by virtue of its owninternalcontradiction.
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Thatinternalcontradictionmeans that the council tax will not survive.
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There seems to be someinternalcontradictionthere.
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I am not entirely sure, but there seems to be aninternalcontradictionhere.
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That is aninternalcontradiction, because if the one is harvested to the most efficient point, the other will have to be excluded altogether.
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There appears to be aninternalcontradictionin their comments.
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Tonight's debate is essentially about how thatinternalcontradictioncan be resolved.
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Thisinternalcontradictionmust be halted.
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There is nointernalcontradictionin that view.
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Hegel held that a thing's or idea'sinternalcontradictionleads in a dialectical process to a new synthesis that makes better sense of the contradiction.
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More significantly, urbanism has failed as a rhetoric because of internal contradictions, mistaken objects and a general lack of critical theory.
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Centrifugal forces arose from within villages, besetting religious life with internal contradictions and contestation.
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This, he posits, cannot survive because of internal contradictions and external pressure for change.
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This idea is also free of internal contradictions compromising the 1-gen and 2-gen models.
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They were in different forms exposed to the internal contradictions of the liberation movement and the struggle within the struggle.
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This leads to internal contradictions in the book.
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