His fair demands Shall be accomplished without
contradiction. --Shak.
2. Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency;
incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is
inconsistent.
can be make deathless death? That were to make
Strange contradiction. --Milton.
We state our experience and then we come to a manly
resolution of acting in contradiction to it.
--Burke.
Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be
true. --Hobbes.
Of contradictions infinite the slave. --Wordsworth.
{Principle of contradiction} (Logic), the axiom or law of
thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same
time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same
attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and
denied of the same subject.
Note: It develops itself in three specific forms which have
been called the ``Three Logical Axioms.'' First, ``A is
A.'' Second, ``A is not Not-A'' Third, ``Everything is
either A or Not-A.''