Sentences with contradictory
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C c - Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment.
- A contradictory person
- Kate Benson Confused by seemingly contradictory health advice?
- But the act has some confusing and contradictory features.
- contradictory statements.
- If one proposition is the negation of another, it follows trivially from the definition that the two propositions are contradictories. The converse does not hold. Two propositions can be contradictories without either being the negation of the other. For example: 3) John is more than six feet tall and 4) John is either exactly six feet tall or else less than six feet tall are contradictories, but neither is the negation of the other. Negation is one way, but not the only way, of forming a contradictory.
- She refers to this large collection of contradictory works as the apocrypha.
- Inhabit a profoundly contradictory zone.