어떤 사실의 앞뒤가 서로 맞지 않는 상태
A situation or statement in which different parts or ideas are opposed to one another.
예문:
"The company's environmental policy is a contradiction to its heavy use of plastic packaging."
"He is a walking contradiction, loving luxury cars while preaching about simple living."
남의 말을 부정하거나 반대되는 주장을 함
The act of stating the opposite of what has been said or denying a statement.
예문:
"The witness's new statement was a flat contradiction of her previous testimony."
"The government issued a formal contradiction to the claims made in the newspaper."
논리적으로 양립할 수 없는 두 명제의 관계
A proposition that is necessarily false because it contains logically incompatible elements.
예문:
"The proof relies on a reductio ad absurdum, which starts by assuming a contradiction."
"In formal logic, a contradiction is a statement that is false in all possible worlds."