Collocations withcontradiction
These are words often used in combination withcontradiction.
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apparent contradiction
We describe two experiments exploring the interpretive structures used by adults and young children in their reasoning about an apparent contradiction.
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complete contradiction
This approach is in complete contradiction to that adopted in the main balance sheet.
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direct contradiction
Sometimes some of the constraints obtained from the objects themselves may be in direct contradiction to constraints already present in the action being invoked.
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fundamental contradiction
There appears to be a fundamental contradiction here.
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inner contradiction
As a result, he comes against another very serious inner contradiction.
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internal contradiction
Such a claim would be a flagrant internal contradiction.
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logical contradiction
From the fact that ' matter cannot think ' is not, strictly speaking, a logical contradiction, it only follows that the proposition is synthetic, not that it expresses a metaphysical contingency.
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obvious contradiction
This conclusion is certainly not an obvious contradiction.
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seeming contradiction
Another seeming contradiction to the generalisations about gemination concerns prefixes.
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without fear of contradiction
I say without fear of contradiction that the majority of wheat grown this year has been grown at a loss.
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