For example, if a chain-smoking teacher cautions a pupil for smoking, that warning is self-contradictory.
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Self-contradictory
Synonyms for "self-contradictory" (111 found)
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Related words (55)
incompatibleinconceivableinconclusiveincongruousinconsequentinconsequentialinconsistentinconsonantinvalidironicirrationalirreconcilablelogically impossibleloosenonscientificnot followingnot possiblenot rightnot trueoff
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off the trackoutout of proportionout of the questionoxymoronicparadoxicalparalogicalpeccantperversepervertedpreposterousprohibitedreasonlessridiculousruled-outself-annullingself-refutingsenselessstrayingunauthenticunconnectedunfactualunimaginableunorthodoxunphilosophicalunprovedunreasonableunscientificunthinkableuntruewidewithout reasonwithout rhyme or reasonwrong
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14 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- вътрешно противоречив adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 自相矛盾 adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Finnish
1 entries- sisäisesti ristiriitainen adj (statements that contradict themselves)
French
2 entries- contradictoire adj (statements that contradict themselves)
- qui se contredit adj (statements that contradict themselves)
German
2 entries- in sich selbst widersprüchlich adj (statements that contradict themselves)
- selbstwidersprüchlich adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Hungarian
1 entries- önellentmondó adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Japanese
2 entries- 自己撞着の adj (statements that contradict themselves)
- 自己矛盾した adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- selvmotsigende adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Polish
1 entries- wewnętrznie sprzeczny adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Romanian
1 entries- autocontradictoriu adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Swedish
1 entries- självmotsägande adj (statements that contradict themselves)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The conception of a noumenon, that is, of a thing which must be cogitated not as an object of sense, but as a thing in itself (solely through the pure understanding), is not self-contradictory, for we are not entitled to maintain that sensibility is the only possible mode of intuition.
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The statement “We agree to disagree on everything” is self-contradictory.
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