| 单词 | self-contradiction |
| 例句 | Instead, as if abashed by the shadow Williams casts over him, too often he undermines his own inventions, withdrawing into excesses of explanation, banal writing and self-contradiction just when he ought to go for broke. A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “A Perfect Miracle,” from a Spiritualized album due Sept. 7, unfolds as a lush self-contradiction. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The video was another reminder that the roller coaster transition from the Obama to the post-Obama era has revealed an extraordinary complexity and self-contradiction at the heart of the contemporary black experience in America. The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Only Stella, gifted in all forms of escape and wonderfully inscrutable to the end, is permitted the mystery and self-contradiction that allows for the fullness of personality on the page. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Because of what Taylor doesn't allow himself to say earlier, the result is self-contradiction. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z “Settle for More” is written with the political delicacy of a person still negotiating her next contract, and Kelly’s brand centers on her penchant for self-contradiction and surprise. Megyn Kelly, the Glittering Aberration 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The Coens find the unanswered questions, the points of self-contradiction, and unstable logic that can bring the entire narrative house of cards down. Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z A symptom of that problem is frequent and inexplicable self-contradiction, which may happen often enough in life but muddies the logic of a shortish play. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z At each of the Boston performances, I noticed more of the ballet’s moments of struggle and self-contradiction. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z It was as if the character of Archie had been building a foundation of narrow-mindedness and self-contradiction specifically so that he could be sent reeling by Davis’s simple smooch. Critic?s Notebook: TV Kisses Lose Impact They Had in Sammy Davis Jr.?s Day 2012-02-11T00:40:50Z The columnist’s grace is to avoid being predictable, but across the length of a book this can result in flagrant self-contradiction. ‘The Road to Character,’ by David Brooks 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Still, some degree of self-contradiction is good for any company. Review: The Royal Ballet Returns to New York With ‘The Dream’ 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Low, soft, round; up, fast, high: it’s a compellingly sensuous image of calm self-contradiction. The Watch List: American Ballet Theater?s Spring 2010-05-13T20:58:00Z In her statement, Kim Yo Jong said the criticisms of the launch were "self-contradiction" as the U.S. and other countries have already launched "thousands of satellites." US calls for UN meeting on North Korea's attempted satellite launch 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In her statement, Kim also said the wide criticism of her country's satellite launch was "self-contradiction" as the U.S. and other countries have already launched "thousands of satellites." North Korea's Kim Yo Jong vows more spy satellite launches -KCNA 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z But when I read it, I realized all the things I thought were my flaws — the digressing, the self-contradiction — in Bernhard that was the writing. Why are these summer books indebted to an Austrian author of nihilistic rants? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Chinese and Russian self-contradiction and hypocrisy on this score far outweigh any inconsistencies of which Mr. Biden might be guilty. Opinion | At a moment of peril, the world’s democracies needed Biden’s pep rally 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Their views about politics are shallower, more contingent on circumstances and more subject to self-contradiction than people who spend their careers thinking about politics would likely be able to to imagine. Scholar Larry Bartels: Trump has revealed that "truth and reason" don't matter to politics 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z He may also be the most quintessentially Californian, embodying an admixture of contemplation, activism and self-contradiction at the heart of a nation-state with a population bigger than Canada’s. Review: Jerry Brown gets the biography he deserves 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Hlond’s balance sheet shows that the positives and the negatives required each other: his ambivalence was the point, and it was rooted in the Church’s centuries-old self-contradiction about Jews. Pope Francis and the Problematic Sainthood Cause of Cardinal August Hlond 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In the world according to Donald Trump, schism, self-contradiction and paradox are the new normal. Death, division and denial as US embassy opens in Jerusalem 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Where others might simply bow to self-contradiction as inevitable, Lamar remains drawn to the idea that we will be judged by the path we walk, and by the work we leave behind. Kendrick Lamar’s Holy Spirit 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Donald Trump lies like he tweets: erratically, at all hours, sometimes in malice and sometimes in self-contradiction, and sometimes without any apparent purpose at all. How does Donald Trump lie? A fact checker's final guide 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z His “issues” are a melange of self-contradiction, and he’s a flip-flopper himself. Rand Paul’s epic implosion: What his unwinnable fight with Donald Trump says about a campaign gone wrong 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It’s a gag response – a classically Nouvelle Vague piece of classy-sounding self-contradiction. Work Like The Wind? What George R R Martin and Jack Welch Have In Common 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The result is a marvelous confluence of indignation, myopia and cynicism, all of it built on a shaky foundation: That the American people aren’t really paying enough attention to see the self-contradiction and hypocrisy. Special Interests Say Special Interests Are Buying The 2014 Election 2014-04-08T21:55:19Z Political analysts noted a strain of self-contradiction in his stance on dealing with the Taliban. Pakistan’s Leader Says He’s Open to Talks With Taliban 2013-08-19T23:23:08Z More importantly, qualification and self-contradiction—which feature in any human mind—are not barriers to action, progress or change. A Contemplation of Chattering Minds 2012-06-30T19:45:00.230Z Picking a path toward this argument that doesn't immediately cave in under the weight of self-contradiction proves to be a difficult task. Central banks: The twilight of the central banker 2012-06-26T17:28:31Z Any affirmation of more than one existence is on the face of the affirmation an absolute self-contradiction, if infinity be pretended for either of the existences affirmed. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The Unknowable assumed as existent entity is the Unknowable known,—a self-contradiction. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The right self-contradiction consists not in turning in obedience to others, but in going against the wind from whichever direction it blows. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z But I will leave the author of the "Guide of those who have gone astray" to his self-contradiction, and only retain the Jewish definition of Morality as based upon the Will of God. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z There is some self-contradiction in such a supposition. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z Supernaturalism is for a rationalist a word of self-contradiction. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z For by will is generally meant a psychical faculty; and to speak of "unconscious will" is either a self-contradiction or a mere figure of speech. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Why, then, does the view that intelligence is both a product of evolution and a cause of another phase of evolution land us in self-contradiction, or make the existence of itself meaningless? A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z George Eliot's usually firm grip on character wavers into strange self-contradiction in her delineations of Esther Lyon. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z For in admitting any premise, we admit, no more than is contained in it; and if we only deny what is not contained in our admission, we are not involved in a self-contradiction, or absurdity. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z A wonderfully absurd self-contradiction, this "kingdom divided against itself!" Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z An authority without the means of enforcing itself is a self-contradiction. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z It speaks of the advisability of non-dependency of the Ministry on the Chamber, and it speaks of the self-contradiction of the three terms. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z “It will take 10 minutes from the school day in the classroom so it won’t cut into the school day,” I was told in a classic self-contradiction. Chicago News Cooperative: It?s Breakfast Time, and Education Will Pay 2011-03-13T01:04:18Z It may be a mystery; but then it is the only safe retreat from self-contradiction, absurdity, and atheism. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Wayne Rooney's week of self-contradiction is at an end, but the episode will not be consigned to history that easily. Wayne Rooney's disrespect to fans and team-mates will not be forgotten 2010-10-23T08:00:00Z To suppose the will of society opposing the course of Evolution is to suppose a self-contradiction. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z And such an assertion is indeed a self-contradiction. The Sources Of Religious Insight Angels, in exchanging eternal bliss for the sufferings of an earthly life, grow in intelligence, acquire the means of going astray and the faculty of self-contradiction. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels There is a self-contradiction here from which the radical dualism of thought and thing is the only truth that can save us. Essays in Radical Empiricism They will see, in other words, a creature of manipulation and self-contradiction: one they will feel they can rely on less. Wayne Rooney's disrespect to fans and team-mates will not be forgotten 2010-10-23T08:00:00Z A clever interrogator spread out proposition after proposition before you and invited your assent, choosing forms of words likely to catch your prejudices and lure you into self-contradiction. Logic, Inductive and Deductive I can here only repeat my opinion that this thesis is one which nobody can deny without self-contradiction. The Sources Of Religious Insight There is also a certain wayward, heroic, Ruskin-like self-contradiction about Müller, which one learns rather to enjoy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 The practical world was less harmonious, since the views of different parts of it were colored by differing interests; but the fact that science did not fall into self-contradiction was encouraging. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy In each of these is involved some self-contradiction, some gap which reason cannot span; and yet, as Kant said, unless we do assume them, rational action, and even thought itself, are impossible. Memoirs of Life and Literature It is an imaginary opponent that you reduce to an absurdity or self-contradiction. Logic, Inductive and Deductive It was another instance of Socialism losing sight of itself, it was a process quite parallel at the other extreme with the self-contradiction of the Anarchist-Socialist. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism "Are you not enough to bewilder one's brain with your self-contradiction?" Shirley The appearances of Jesus, after his resurrection, are grotesque in their self-contradiction. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The usual answer admits that God cannot contradict himself, but denies that the Bible is chargeable with self-contradiction. The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted Let him admit both and he cannot without self-contradiction deny the conclusion. Logic, Inductive and Deductive A man who assumes such ground as this, had need be very careful in assuming his positions, indeed; and should particularly avoid any thing like self-contradiction. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 An à priori truth is a truth which cannot be denied without self-contradiction, but there can never be a logical consideration in supposing the non-existence of any fact whatever. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies We forbear to analyse this wretched stuff, though we might show its intrinsic absurdity and self-contradiction. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) She would thus have fallen into a self-contradiction, to which she must have succumbed in course of time. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) To take Progress, which on the one hand is a fact and on the other is an incomplete fact, to be the end of our striving and our doing is to acquiesce in a self-contradiction. Progress and History But though the reformers were thus, in some respects, more true to their fundamental principle than their followers have been, we are not to suppose that they are free from all inconsistencies and self-contradiction. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The fact that the material foundation annuls itself and establishes for itself a realm in the clouds can only be explained from the heterogeneity and self-contradiction of the material foundation. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy Startled into a self-contradiction by the suddenness and impetuosity of this thrust, the witness said, "I do deny it." A Book About Lawyers Sir, you have spoken evil for yourself; you have made the self-contradiction worse. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) But if the man ask how self-contradiction can do all this, and how its dynamism may be seen to work, Hegel can only reply by showing him the space itself and saying: "Lo, thus." The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It is added that solar motion is "full of self-contradiction, which "the astronomers" simply overlooked, but which they dare not now deny after being once pointed out." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Thus their self-alienation has deepened into absolute self-contradiction, the complete scission of the soul. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary I have more inconsistency, more self-contradiction, more anachronism, more impossibility. Marge Askinforit He only argues that Malthus's concessions are made at the cost of self-contradiction. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Not only is it a self-contradiction in terms, but it denies the very possibility of religious evolution. The Idea of God in Early Religions He muttered in self-contradiction, "Or that I've been here a month." Adaptation He did not even shrink from what looked like self-contradiction, so honest was his feeling for truth, and so little faith had he in the infallibility of sect and the trustworthiness of system. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch It is an old trick of the schools to rouse a pedant to desperate and distracted self-contradiction by quietly imitating everything he says. Paul Patoff He found indeed in the working of the pure intellect an outcome of self-contradiction. The Chief End of Man What perplexing self-contradiction it all seemed to me as I looked around! My Reminiscences Moreover, as we have repeatedly seen, a development in infinitum suffers from a self-contradiction: for development involves an end, and this end must certainly have been once reached. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality We must at length face the one conclusion which does not land us in self-contradiction—viz., that in the act of creation God limits His own infinity, no matter to how infinitesimal an extent. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive What eternal and necessary impediment prevents? or what self-contradiction and absurdity is hereby implied? Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws When Vauvenargues began to reflect, he was astonished at the inexactitude and even self-contradiction of the philosophical language of his day. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France On that terrible slave question, over which wiser brains have puzzled, till they became lost in a labyrinth of self-contradiction, I purpose to speak only a few cursory words. Border and Bastille Would the slightest error or self-contradiction have been allowed to appear in it? The Religious Situation Similar instances of self-contradiction could be given, did space permit, from almost every advocate of evolution. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity To breed out of humanitas a self-contradiction, an art of self-pollution, a will to lie at any price, an aversion and contempt for all good and honest instincts! The Antichrist How can we define the Infinite without self-contradiction? The Last Harvest Hume failed as completely as his predecessors had done to recognise the elementary character of impressions of relation; and, when he discusses relations, he falls into a chaos of confusion and self-contradiction. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) What account is to be given of self-contradiction such as this, but the fact, that he would deny the additions, if he could, and defends them, because he can't? Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists At the same time, by a self-contradiction familiar to such natures as his, he felt himself more and more strongly drawn to the girl, and more and more strictly bound in honour to marry her. A Cigarette-Maker's Romance How if we go on to argue: therefore, Every man is apt to blunder, prone to confusion of thought, inured to self-contradiction? Logic Deductive and Inductive It is not merely an anachronism, but a self-contradiction of the most patent kind. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" The fear of self-contradiction may be excused in Aristotle and Plato, in St. Anselm and St. Thomas, in Descartes and Leibnitz. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism The moral nature of God—a fallacy of suppressed correlative A perpetual miracle—a self-contradiction. Practical Essays Nevertheless, if we take this most natural position, we appear to find ourselves plunged into the most hopeless of labyrinths, every turn of which brings us face to face with a flat self-contradiction. An Introduction to Philosophy When Catholics explain Luther's failure as a monk by such assertions, they involve themselves in self-contradiction. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation There seemed thus to be a self-contradiction and paradox somewhere, which I, as a professor drawing a full salary, was in duty bound to unravel and explain, if I could. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals At the moment of inflicting the censure, some recollection in opposition to what is asserted passes in the mind, and to approximate to Truth, they offer a discrepancy, a self-contradiction. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions If it be said that the best mode of attaining happiness is to put ourselves entirely out of account, and to work for others exclusively, this, as already noted, is a self-contradiction. Practical Essays To begin with, it involves a self-contradiction to say that the energy of any force can stop the working of that force. The Law and the Word Most men will demand a better explanation of the seeming self-contradiction in Luther's attitude toward the divine Law. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation His high indignations lead him into all manner of absurdity and self-contradiction. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin He hid this self-contradiction from Matching's Easy with much the same feelings that a curate might hide a poisoned dagger at a tea-party.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through On the other hand, any attempt to state the facts of the outer world on Berkeley's plan, or on any plan that avoids the self-contradiction, is most cumbrous and unmanageable. Practical Essays He never disagreed with you, whatever heterodox sentiments you might give vent to, and still no one could ever catch him in any positive inconsistency or self-contradiction. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Final and absolute disbelief in an ultimate good in the sphere of morals, like absolute scepticism in the sphere of knowledge, is a disguised self-contradiction, and therefore an impossibility in fact. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Nigrahasthâna means the exposure of the opponent's argument as involving self-contradiction, inconsistency or the like, by which his defeat is conclusively proved before the people to the glory of the victorious opponent. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 He suspects it only too justly of disorderly impulses, and a capacity for self-contradiction. Mr. Britling Sees It Through What is far worse, by involving a simple fact in inextricable contradictions, they have led people gravely to recognise self-contradiction as the natural and the proper condition of a certain class of questions. Practical Essays Any proposal to increase disinterested action by moral obligation contains a self-contradiction; it is suicidal. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics To speak of reality as unknowable, or to speak of anything as unknowable, is to utter a direct self-contradiction; it is to negate in the predicate what is asserted in the subject. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher But if the perception of "difference" between two things has penetrated together in the same identical perception, then the self-contradiction becomes apparent. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 It seems clear, at any rate, that no claim for a 'consistency' which would imply freedom from self-contradiction can be validly made for Blake. Books and Characters French and English Pope's lines— Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part; there all the honour lies— cannot be exempted from the fallacy of self-contradiction. Practical Essays Such conduct Hobbes likens to an intellectual absurdity or self-contradiction. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics A purely subjective consciousness which knows, such as the poet tried to describe, is a self-contradiction: it would be a consciousness at once related, and not related, to the actual world. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher The essence of the comic is self-contradiction, contrast. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The critic who admits the jar, but continues to appreciate, must present, to the true enthusiast, a spectacle of curious self-contradiction. Books and Characters French and English The apparent self-contradiction of the proposal to report speeches without speaking, is not hard to resolve. Practical Essays Somewhere there must be an aspect of it guiltless of self-contradiction. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy A philosophy of life which is based on agnosticism is an explicit self-contradiction, which can help no one. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher For him there was no fault so important as self-contradiction, no science so significant as the reconciliation of "interests." The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Here is self-contradiction indefinitely extended in an other way. The Grammar of English Grammars But upon far more subjects than this Pope was habitually false to the quality of his thoughts, always insincere, never by any accident in earnest, and consequently many times caught in ruinous self-contradiction. Famous Reviews The charges of self-contradiction, where they do not rest on purely verbal reasoning, rest on a vicious intellectualism. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy That the moral good, if attained, should itself prove vain is a plain self-contradiction. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher The proceedings thus far had at least made it evident to the unbiased hearer that each of the two parties made extravagant claims, and, in the end, fell into self-contradiction. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time These later verses play with that vertigo of self-contradiction which is so dear to mysticism. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The impotence of my arguments was exposed, their absurdity and self-contradiction ridiculed, their evil tendency demonstrated, their falsehood rendered odious, and the author of them treated like a child. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor The advocates of the absolute assure us that any distributive form of being is infected and undermined by self-contradiction. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It was a plan that in default of a really effective occupation of the whole country, especially of some occupation of Western Numidia, implied a certain amount of self-contradiction and inconsistency. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate Mrs. Beaumont, being somewhat in the habit of self-contradiction, was seldom unprovided with a concordance of excuses; but at this unlucky moment she was found unprepared. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 But Hamlet is so elaborate a portrait, built up of so many minute touches, that self-contradiction is a part, and a necessary part, of his many-sided complexity. The Man Shakespeare It may be false in fact, but it is not a self-contradiction in the terms. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge It is a tissue of self-contradiction which only the complete absorption of the desk and the manuscript into the higher unity of a more absolute reality can overcome. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Milton's attitude towards nature is not that of a "descriptive poet", if indeed the phrase be not a self-contradiction. Milton In either case this author's assertion would amount to a charge of self-contradiction on the Author of all things. Literary Remains, Volume 2 In all its self-contradiction and cowering unreason, it is set face to face with its celestial umpire, and subjected to her unrelenting criticism. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded There is something so shameless in this self-contradiction as of itself almost to extinguish the belief that the prelatic royalists were conscientious in their conclusions. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Because she has not the position in society," replied Mrs. Wardour, enveloping her nothing in flimsy reiteration and self-contradiction. Mary Marston Thus an Hedonist cannot be Altruist to boot; and, trying to combine the two characters, the Utilitarian is committed to a self-contradiction. Moral Philosophy It would not be hard to quote the utterances of saints and ascetics for either view; or to convict individual authorities of seeming self-contradiction in the matter. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) To assert this were self-contradiction, and pride inflated to madness. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales A requital of love would mean selfishness, which would be self-contradiction. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder But upon far more subjects than this Pope was habitually false in the quality of his thoughts, always insincere, never by any accident in earnest, and consequently many times caught in ruinous self-contradiction. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 You can't be subject and object too—introspection is a self-contradiction. Without Prejudice It is just because Strauss has chosen to depart from it that he has found himself involved in the maze of self-contradiction through which we have been trying to follow him. The Fair Haven Therefore, in all duties the conscience of the man must regard another than himself as the judge of his actions, if it is to avoid self-contradiction. The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics Even the most depraved are not wholly without this instinct, and it often leads them to self-contradiction. Emile Generally, I believe, that to a just appreciation of Pope's falseness, levity, and self-contradiction, it is almost essential that a reader should have studied him with the purpose of becoming his editor. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Meeting the look from these eyes, Bagger could no longer continue the inquisition which he had carried on for the sake of involving Miss Hjelm in self-contradiction and bringing her to confession. Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Of course everything is relative, and I would not deny that the element of struggle and self-contradiction, represented by that cross, has a necessary place at a certain evolutionary stage. The Ball and the Cross To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset by abstract accusations of self-contradiction. Meaning of Truth But Mr. Darwin expressly excludes this sense of the word, in a sentence which seems to involve a self-contradiction. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science He is that singular phenomenon, that self-contradiction, that expression insoluble into factors of common-sense—the Conservative working man. Demos I can annihilate in thought every existing substance without self-contradiction, but I cannot infer from this their objective contingency in existence, that is to say, the possibility of their non-existence in itself. The Critique of Pure Reason Sometimes, when the conversation turned upon intricate subjects, he practised upon him the Socratic method of confutation, and, under pretence of being informed, by an artful train of puzzling questions insensibly betrayed him into self-contradiction. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle But to escape treating the resultant self-contradiction as an achievement of dialectical profundity, all we need is to restore some part, no matter how small, of what we have taken away. Meaning of Truth What a picture of perpetual self-contradiction I present—and how improbable it is that I should act in this illogical way! Poor Miss Finch He struck me," she said afterwards with a luminous self-contradiction, "as a very unhappy person who had something to say, and wanted before all things to be helped to say it. Twelve Stories and a Dream There was, then, no real self-contradiction of reason in the propositions: The series of phenomena given in themselves has an absolutely first beginning; and: This series is absolutely and in itself without beginning. The Critique of Pure Reason Like other writers on this subject, he is unable to escape from some degree of self-contradiction. Timaeus What there is of self-contradiction in all this I confess I cannot discover. Meaning of Truth The great majority of the Old Ritualists regard it as a trap, and assert that the Church in making this concession has been guilty of self-contradiction. Russia But when you say, God does not exist, neither omnipotence nor any other predicate is affirmed; they must all disappear with the subject, and in this judgement there cannot exist the least self-contradiction. The Critique of Pure Reason For there is nothing absolutely connecting reason with such an existence; on the contrary, it can annihilate it in thought, always and without self-contradiction. The Critique of Pure Reason Whether and in what way can reason free itself from this self-contradiction? The Critique of Pure Reason |
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