apparent contradiction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofapparentandcontradiction
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apparent
adjective
uk/əˈpær.ənt/us/əˈper.ənt/
able to be seen ...
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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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We describe two experiments exploring the interpretive structures used by adults and young children in their reasoning about anapparentcontradiction.
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Experiment 1 explores the range of such interpretive structures available to adults in their reasoning about anapparentcontradiction.
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At the risk ofapparentcontradiction(and of seeming forever prickly) our answer is not entirely positive.
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Unless these two conditions are met, one ought not to believe anyapparentcontradiction, for what is apparently contradictory is for that reason apparently false.
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This wording and the timing of the interview - nearly half a year after the last election - may be a potential explanation for thisapparentcontradiction.
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The pregnant pause, allowing time for the narrator's parenthetical commentary, stems, one assumes, from anapparentcontradiction.
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Thisapparentcontradictionwas resolved by linking the geographical code, as already described above, to a time code.
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The proposed solution to thisapparentcontradictionis that there is no direct syntactic movement of the right-dislocated phrase.
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Thisapparentcontradictionmay be due to the lack of enforcement of pension eligibility conditions and not to a past fulfillment of contribution requirements.
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Having made these statements, anapparentcontradictionnow appears more clearly.
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Thisapparentcontradictionfurther supports the idea that the physiological optimum of the species is closer to a temperate climate.
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Theapparentcontradictioncan be largely reconciled by considering the different stimulus ranges and polarities associated with sinusoidal modulation versus steps of light.
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Thisapparentcontradictionmight reflect a downward bias in the estimates of conventional net investment, due to incomplete data on gross fixed capital formation.
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Note also, however, that in this model there is noapparentcontradictionwith relativity.
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Thisapparentcontradictioncan be resolved by assuming lipid domains of different sizes occur simultaneously in the plasma membrane.
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Experiment 1 explores the range of such interpretive structures available to adults (n l 24) in their reasoning about anapparentcontradiction.
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The events after 1965, and the subsequent internal discourse, are key to understanding thisapparentcontradiction.
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It is thisapparentcontradictionthat provides memoirs with their force, instability, and apparent similarity to fiction.
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However, he exhorts, one must not balk at theapparentcontradictionof this view.
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