英语词汇“self-contradictory”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero and infinity made the simple acts of taking tangents and finding areas appear to be self-contradictory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But as “Hero” later acknowledges, Lawrence was much too complicated and self-contradictory to fit any one-word label. Books Of the Times: Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert 2010-11-21T22:37:00Z

In a particularly exciting section of “Ugliness,” on “ugly sound,” Henderson excavates the self-contradictory but undeniable fact that aesthetic advances—discoveries of new species of beauty—have often been spurred on by ugliness. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

In an optically complex, visually self-contradictory dress with a two-tone, long-sleeve blouse atop a pleated silk skirt, she wears Dada on her sleeve. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The woman involved in Julian’s betrayal is self-contradictory, even pathetic. Double the Trouble in a Novel of Hollywood Marriages 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t take much digging to find the sort of piquant detail that makes Fischer such a curious character, one far livelier and self-contradictory than the grayed-out version shown by Zwick. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

I grant that the term “atheist church” sounds clunky and self-contradictory, because these areas of human interaction have historically been claimed by religion and our language doesn’t have good non-religious words for them. Atheist churches: A new type of secular community 2013-12-03T16:23:00Z

Without question, Reed was capable of highly self-contradictory behavior. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Often we see bodies leaning two ways at once — the lower body is forward, while the torso plunges back — but this self-contradictory mood is jubilant, unconflicted. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Symphony #9’ Has City Center Premiere 2012-10-20T02:30:07Z

And all those knowingly self-contradictory epigrams, simultaneously flippant and deathly serious, almost like Zen koans: coming at eternal truth by a sort of profound, solemn mischievousness. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z

This would certainly be a quixotic, self-contradictory mission, but it was a mission nonetheless, and on my first day, I almost completely failed. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z

Shapiro’s vision of materialist America is brutally honest, complex, and self-contradictory. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

It also works, more intuitively, as a glimpse at the self-contradictory components at play in any personality. Paul Laffoley ’s ‘Bauharoque ’: deep thoughts, pretty to look at 2013-04-18T21:49:50Z

In fact, he is so full of self-serving, self-contradictory nonsense throughout the whole thing that he’s making Donald Trump seem lucid and considerate by comparison. “The Fat Jew” defends himself and comes up short: Even on “the cutting edge of the Internet,” stealing actually is “a matter of right or wrong” 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

It's a great phrase and, as Grosz rightly decides, a better explanation of self-contradictory human behaviour than "splitting", because its larger truth has been hewn from firsthand knowledge. The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – review 2013-01-27T07:01:24Z

Look — they seem to say — how fabulously these people look at the same time both peculiar and natural, self-contradictory and touching. Review: The Humanity of Yvonne Rainer’s Natural and Peculiar Dances 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Despite his apparently easy command of its deliberately self-contradictory gestures, Salonen judged balance within the overall sound picture to a nicety; nothing was overstated, even at the biggest climaxes. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-06-29T17:30:01Z

And after the death this past Tuesday of Elizabeth Wurtzel, the “Prozac Nation” author and 1990s-angst poster child, our confused, self-contradictory cohort may have lost the most Gen X member of us all. Elizabeth Wurtzel Finally Grew Up, Like the Rest of Gen X 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

And they behave in ways that are perfectly consistent with their sometimes self-contradictory beliefs. ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid,’ With Cherry Jones 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

It then shared a link to its definition of oxymoron: “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’ Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Baldung drawing reminds the viewer of something that becomes a powerful leitmotif of the exhibition: that many of these works insist on operating in wildly different, even self-contradictory ways. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

He teaches them to deal with hecklers, to howl and wail and strut just like their male idols, and preaches a passionate if self-contradictory brand of macho feminism. Movie Review | 'The Runaways': Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Rock ?n? Roll Idols 2010-03-18T22:06:00Z

"If North Korea ever invades the South again, it will be self-contradictory, where a U.N. member state would be attacking the U.N. Command," Shin told the meeting. UN members concerned China, Russia helping North Korea -US' Austin 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

"Over the past two days, we have seen the U.S. government and media releasing a great deal of inconsistent information on the so-called allegation ... This is a display of the 'self-contradictory USA'," Wang said. China says allegations of Chinese spying in Cuba are false 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

The simplest explanation for Musk's ever-more-hilarious self-contradictory behavior as the new boss of Twitter is that the man is a narcissist and a hypocrite. Elon Musk's censorship spree exposes the fundamental flaw in the right's definition of "free speech" 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

The lies are so silly and often so self-contradictory — and the people disseminating so obviously evil — that these texts just feel like confirming what we already knew. Brainstorming a coup: Meadows' text reveal the anatomy of Trump's Big Lie 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

A few years back I made up the self-contradictory term “prosperity bomb” to try to describe the disparate impacts of tech wealth descending on a town. Prosperity bomb 2.0? Bellevue passes Manhattan in housing prices 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Such debates were possible because the document was, Feldman stipulates, “self-contradictory” in its provisions on slavery. Review | An indictment of Abraham Lincoln as a ‘constitutional dictator’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Yet this approach is hopelessly self-contradictory and incoherent. Column: Republicans are trying to drag free preschool and college into the culture war 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Never one for strict coherence, Mr. Jones seems to be reaching for new levels of incoherence, Mr. Friesen added, “so reactive, so self-contradictory, day to day.” Alex Jones’s Podcasting Hecklers Face Their Foil’s Downward Slide 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

What generates doubts about the administration’s commitment to rigorous vaccine testing and oversight is an approach that combines adherence to a political timeline and confused and self-contradictory messaging in all other respects. Column: Trump's plot for a pre-election vaccine puts politics before science 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Yet, neither the early-novel invocation of the self-contradictory rule nor the late-novel revelation of false constructions to exert power are what we find in contemporary journalism. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A memorial that could be the first step of many toward a reckoning 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Li may not mean to sound self-contradictory; writing is a deliberative act in any language. Telling stories to bury the dead: Yiyun Li's novel about the deepest grief 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Trump’s shifting and often self-contradictory comments are a feature of his nightly briefings, where questions and specifics typically drown in a sea of self-lavished superlatives. Trump's improvised medicine show prompts frantic health warnings 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

“It is self-contradictory to ask for sharing of military intelligence while calling South Korea untrustworthy in the security domain,” Moon said. Under U.S. pressure, South Korea holds off ending intelligence pact with Japan 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

His alter egos are self-contradictory and, one might even say, complex. The misunderstood humor of Danny McBride 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

They were also self-contradictory, given that, elsewhere in the very same opinion, he faulted the court majority for “echoing the din of suspicion and distrust that seems to typify modern discourse.” Opinion | John Roberts said there are no Trump judges or Obama judges. Clarence Thomas didn’t get the memo. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

“Progressive neoliberalism” might sound self-contradictory, she notes, but it “combined an expropriative, plutocratic economic program with a liberal-meritocratic politics of recognition,” such that: Time for a change: Can 2020 Democrats break free from the failures of neoliberalism? 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

There was also a side benefit here: Watching one Republican after another advance this self-contradictory, dishonest nonsense was enough to drive any viewer of good faith slightly mad with rage. Michael Cohen issues a gripping, sobering warning on Trump's corruption: But will it matter? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Here’s where Giuliani’s spin goes off the rails -- and is self-contradictory. Analysis | Rudy Giuliani’s Pinocchio-laden interview on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Those framers understood, as did America's founders, that birthright citizenship is inherently self-contradictory. Right’s attack on birthright citizenship: A new front in the battle for the Constitution 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

Those framers understood, as did America’s founders, that birthright citizenship is inherently self-contradictory. Opinion | Citizenship shouldn’t be a birthright 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

There were so many moments where the man claiming to speak for Trump made literally no sense, as if he was trying to make himself look like a self-contradictory buffoon. Donald Trump perfects the art of the self-contradictory interview | Richard Wolffe 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Orbital Reflector presented an opportunity to ‘‘get messy . . . to make something that’s beautiful, but also self-contradictory, and tries to challenge common sense.’’ Art for a Post-Surveillance Age 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Richardson also points to other apparently self-contradictory comments made by lawmakers when advancing House Bill 2433, which imposed a new sales tax on car purchases. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

For Trump’s most avid supporters, voting for Trump isn’t really about a set of desired policies, especially since he is vague and often self-contradictory on that front anyway. No regrets for Trump voters: The media needs to stop looking for buyers’ remorse 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

In is 1938 annual message to Congress, he defended his decision, noting how self-contradictory his critics were: The GOP’s biggest budget lies: Take these down, and progressives will start to win 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

You can tell that it’s nothing more than permission for an indulgence, because it’s so inherently self-contradictory. Perspective | Military academy athletes shouldn’t get a break on their service, just time to do it 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The Daily Mail describes Sir Keir's stance as incoherent and self-contradictory, leaving the impression that Labour is in favour of both leaving the EU and remaining in it. Newspaper headlines: New Madeleine clues and Ivanka in Berlin - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

The Wall Street Journal editorial page normalized and downplayed the madness by describing Trump’s erratic lying and nonsensical, self-contradictory superlatives as “unconventional” — “Trump at his Trumpiest,” they wrote. Lies and pollution: Trump loyalists are willing to poison their bodies as well as their minds 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Just to begin with, this is about half of what he said publicly and he’s self-contradictory,” O’Brien said. The president’s secret: Trump once told NYC his net worth was much lower than what he said publicly 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

“Not because of people like me who would like him to fail, but because the ideas that guide him are inherently self-contradictory.” Soros: Trump a 'would-be dictator' who will rattle markets 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

However, your analysis is full of the same self-contradictory statements which characterize economits and financial analysts everywhere. 2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?) 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

For one thing, while populist parties necessarily protest against elites, this does not mean that populism in government will become self-contradictory. Trump, Erdoğan, Farage: The attractions of populism for politicians, the dangers for democracy 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Trump’s grab bag of economic proposals is too self-contradictory to provide a sense of where he would land. Rethinking the Role of Government in Society 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

He said the FCC’s explanation for its new regulatory treatment of broadband providers “is watery thin and self-contradictory.” FCC’s Net-Neutrality Rules Upheld by Appeals Court 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Readers should prepare to encounter a more-than-typically self-contradictory Whitman; his primary claims tilt from visionary to reactionary, commonsensical to nonsensical, egalitarian to racist, pacific to bloodthirsty – and back again,” he says. Walt Whitman revealed as author of 'Manly Health' guide 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

In designing the two-story center within the shell of a former lumberyard structure, Stephen Yablon Architecture was given a seemingly self-contradictory mission. New Planned Parenthood Center in Queens Says ‘Welcome’ in Many Ways 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The self-contradictory argument is founded in her self-branding as “a progressive who gets things done.” Hillary Clinton’s progressive problem: The real policy differences between her and Bernie Sanders can actually be quantified 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

It’s easy to forget just how plain nutty and self-contradictory the original birther thing was. Ted Cruz isn't presidential material, but not because of where he was born | Jeb Lund 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

There is no obvious agenda to the film, other than to demonstrate, simply by showing, that the title is not self-contradictory. TV Picks: 'Of Oz the Wizard,' 'Autism in Love,' 'Doc Martin' 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

We want to embody our consciences on our plates, but the reason it’s so confusing and self-contradictory is that there is no way to climate-proof your diet. What Milk Should I Drink? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

But what bosses need now is a book on how to prevent such organisations from becoming self-contradictory and conflict-ridden ones. A palette of plans 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Usually, the gurus’ advice amounts to self-contradictory, wishful thinking pablum. Why The Best Leadership Involves 'Downward Mobility' 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Goodell’s response – “No, we certainly didn’t...but what we saw yesterday was extremely clear, it was extremely graphic, and it was sickening”-- was blatantly self-contradictory. The Year in Sports Media

He’s taken on the task of crafting a punitive, stingy, self-contradictory GOP version of a bill to deal with the border crisis that most of his party wants to blame solely on President Obama. The not-so-secret GOP strategy for everything: Do nothing, and blame Obama 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

And, like a sad old idiot, it got me thinking about the 80s – that most self-contradictory of decades. Choose life! Why video games could do with a 1980s' touch 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Taken together, these actions and reactions show that people are complex, confusing, and often self-contradictory. What Boston Showed about Human Nature 2013-04-23T10:45:00.383Z

The modern equivalent is probably the purposefully self-contradictory “toilet paper doesn't grow on trees.” Toilet Issue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We ve Wiped 2013-03-08T13:15:00.273Z

No, because while the Indian system is a daily soap opera of small crises, the big crisis of China's self-contradictory system of Leninist capitalism is yet to come. Come on, India! Show us that freedom can outdo tyranny 2013-01-31T08:00:02Z

Instead, he told the court, the defendants made a series of "banal and self-contradictory" statements during their 2009 meeting, many of which were "at best scientifically useless" or, worse, "misleading." Earthquake Experts Convicted of Manslaughter 2012-10-22T20:10:42Z

The genealogy of Matthew is self-contradictory, counts thirteen names as fourteen, and omits the names of three kings. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z

Nor is the Individualism less self-contradictory which bases its theory on the principle that it is the office of civil law to guard the rights of the individual. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z

And such combinations of words may sound either self-contradictory or meaningless. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z

Curious we have the right to call this state of the scientific mind, because it is to critical reflection so certainly self-contradictory. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z

For "Christ's Gospel," by which the rest of the Bible is to be tried, is itself a very composite and self-contradictory thing. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z

Polytheism affirms several Theistic existences—this affirmation being nearly self-contradictory—and also usually affirms at least one non-theistic existence. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z

The account given by Nicolay and Hay conveys no hint of this, but is confused and self-contradictory. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z

The only relation the self-contradictory principles have to one another is in the abstract certainty of self; and for this infinitude of subjectivity the universal will, good, right, and duty, no more exist than not. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z

In fact, the "critical" view that the only certain truth is truth about the process of knowing seems to be inherently self-contradictory. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z

It should not have escaped his notice that this Will is neither uniform nor of assured stability, and that it often wavers and is sometimes self-contradictory. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z

That is, Mr. Armstrong thinks that a “sinless moral system from the first is a self-contradictory conception.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z

"It is thus manifest that a consciousness of the Absolute is equally self-contradictory with that of the Infinite."—Limits of Religious Thought, pp. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z

No alleged occurrence can be ruled out as impossible, then, unless the statement is self-contradictory. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z

For these reasons the early “Caucasian” and “Aryan” hypotheses were self-contradictory and inadequate. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z

Well might the Church exclaim "Save me from my friends!" when a dean acknowledges that her God is a self-contradictory phantom; oddly enough, however, the Church likes it, and accepts this fatal championship. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z

But a humanity, from the first enjoying immunity from suffering, and yet possessed of nobility of character, is a self-contradictory conception.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z

The precise nature of this individuality was very difficult to gauge: it was dubious, complex, perhaps self-contradictory. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z

If it is assumed that the first infinite number is reached by a succession of small steps, it is easy to show that it is self-contradictory. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z

It may well seem a puzzle to us how a normal child of five or six can complacently set down this self-contradictory scheme of a human head. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z

To test this assertion, we—after noting that Bible history is, as has been remarked above, continually self-contradictory—turn to other histories and compare the Bible with them. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z

My first objection is, that to me the definition is on the face of it so self-contradictory that a negative answer must be given to the question, Is there such a God? Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z

"The magistrate found the evidence adduced by the state self-contradictory," Mpanga said. Ugandan court dismisses charges against opposition leader 2011-08-09T17:39:58Z

It will be seen that Leibniz regards it as self-contradictory to maintain that the whole is not greater than its part. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z

The actual difference between Lachmann's Text and those of the earlier Editors is, that his “documentary authority” is partial, narrow, self-contradictory; and is proved to be untrustworthy by a free appeal to Antiquity. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z

"In this subordination there is nothing irrational or self-contradictory." Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z

Even more self-contradictory is the readiness of young people in Europe to back the interest groups opposed to spending cuts. The Global Temper Tantrum 2011-07-11T05:00:00Z

Deronda himself is a prig of the first water; while Gwendolen is self-contradictory all through—like a tangled skein of which you cannot find the end, and therefore cannot bring it into order and intelligibility. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z

In this sense, it is not self-contradictory for whole and part to be equal; it is the realisation of this fact which has made the modern theory of infinity possible. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z

How self-contradictory, in the first place, is the nature of man! Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z

The reckless, incoherent, self-contradictory, incorrect and misleading statements that Mrs. Besant has been freely making latterly in the public press, have only injured her own reputation.... H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z

It is self-contradictory, counts thirteen names as fourteen without explanation, and omits the names of three kings without apology. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z

All efforts of this kind, made by appealing to the common sentiments of mankind, we have seen are self-contradictory. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z

But to say “the particular is the universal” is self-contradictory. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z

Hence, it is frequently alleged by Edwards, that to deny his conclusions, drawn from foreknowledge, is self-contradictory and absurd; unless we deny foreknowledge itself. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z

Not only are the religious conceptions embodied in it composite and sometimes self-contradictory, on the literary side it is composite also. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z

Whether, then, we conceive the actualization as beginning in time or as proceeding from all eternity, it is self-contradictory to suppose the potential as capable of actualizing itself. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

Edwards and his followers have not answered these questions—their attempt at a solution is self-contradictory and void. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z

But relations, according to Mr Bradley, are found on examination to be self-contradictory and therefore impossible. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z

There was nothing to connect them, no common thread upon which they could be strung; all that I had in my possession was a bundle of facts which seemed to be flatly self-contradictory. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z

There seemed to be something self-contradictory here, anyhow it was passing strange; and yet, as he went on meditating, he thought he had found the key to the enigma. Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z

The conception of the world, including all the phenomena of mind and matter, as the gradual self-manifestation or evolution of a potential being eternally actualizing itself, is a self-contradictory conception. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

Liberty thus becomes a self-contradictory conception, and fatalism alone is truth and reality. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z

Hegel believed that, by means of a priori reasoning, it could be shown that the world must have various important and interesting characteristics, since any world without these characteristics would be impossible and self-contradictory. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z

Actually, the Post headline didn’t quite reflect exactly what Graham said, but given the senator’s self-contradictory incoherence, the Post is only partly to blame. Wednesday is a big day for climate change in the Senate 2010-05-10T19:15:00Z

Cantor's statement about receiving threats was as melodramatic as it was self-contradictory; he accused Democrats of stirring up trouble by talking about threats, barely a minute after he talked about threats he'd gotten himself. Eric Cantor "very happy" gunfire proved random 2010-03-26T21:53:00Z

Some such effects He could not produce without created causes, for such production would be self-contradictory. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

The two remaining alternatives, as self-contradictory, are inadmissible. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

It is a common opinion in Germany that our material is in fact too scanty or too self-contradictory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"

From the point of view of "logic," as William James might have said, such a version of psychological fact may seem essentially self-contradictory. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

But the error that we blame is extremely manifold and varying; it is in conflict not only with the good and the true, but also with itself; it is self-contradictory. Maxims and Reflections

It is the analogue, in relation to will, of what scepticism is in relation to intellect; and it is no less self-contradictory than the latter. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

To attempt to deny them ought to be shown to be self-contradictory. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Ladies are said to hold it as one of their prerogatives to be a little unreasonable in their exactions, and a little self-contradictory in their sentiments. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847

That is, without its complete expression, which would be analogous to the self-contradictory task of finding a greatest cardinal number, there can be no cut in the line which is symbolized by it. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

It is a self-contradictory history of the relations between Mary and Darnley. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli"

Finally, the Manichean conception of two Supreme, Self-Existent, Independent First Principles is obviously self-contradictory. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

It ought to be possible to show that, granted the Idea of the Good, all the other Ideas necessarily follow, that to assume the Good and deny the other Ideas would be self-contradictory and unthinkable. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Jenny's brain was buzzing with a multitude of self-contradictory impressions. Carnival

To speak of the angels as sons and yet say that not one of them individually is a son may be self-contradictory in words, but the thought is consistent and true. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews

The indeterminate, self-contradictory, immature character of the Imperial Constitution was the very image of the immature, confused, conflicting political ideas of these Democratic gentlemen. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848

Any individualism which overlooks these principles is opposed to welfare, and so self-contradictory. Rural Health and Welfare

Zeno, the Eleatic, had shown that multiplicity and motion are not only unreal but even impossible, since they are self-contradictory. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Theology is the most uncandid of all the current sciences; its results are the most self-contradictory; its premisses the most incoherent. Rationalism

"Given, too, from one shepherd," hence not self-contradictory and confusing to the listeners. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes

On this point the language of authority is distinct, emphatic, unanimous, and self-contradictory. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications

At the time when the theory was first formulated, there were many current doctrines which were self-contradictory, and which could, therefore, best be met by the assertion of a truism. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies

Since all existence is self-contradictory, it follows that nothing exists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

But how could Eugenio make such things—so true and yet so self-contradictory, so mutually repellent—clear to these simple-hearted young correspondents of his? Imaginary Interviews

And, besides, it is self-contradictory; for the question is, How can a man commit sin for its own sake on account of the pleasure it affords him? A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

Mathematical Infinite, not absolute, 179, 180; capable of exact measurement, therefore limited, 180; infinite sphere, radius, line, etc., self-contradictory, 180, 181. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

"It would be," as he says, "an unsound fancy and self-contradictory, to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

This is self-contradictory, and for Parmenides, therefore, empty space is simply not-being. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Whence finally the conclusion is drawn that assertions are universally self-contradictory. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

But how dark and enigmatical, nay, how self-contradictory, would all such language appear, if they might have been very easily rendered holy and happy! A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

But as this term has just been shown to be self-contradictory, an infinite line can not exist objectively at all. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

Now Nitzsch truly feels that Pallas is something altogether more than an allegory, but he has failed to grasp distinctly her mythical character, the objective side of the Goddess, and so gets confused and self-contradictory. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

To speak of things creating themselves would therefore amount to saying that the understanding presents to itself more than it presents to itself—a self-contradictory affirmation, an empty and vain idea. Creative Evolution

And secondly, it is all wrong and self-contradictory. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856

It is self-contradictory to speak as if a thing by itself could have a constant or any value. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill

Such expressions as infinite sphere, radius, parallelogram, line, and so forth, are self-contradictory. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

Take, e.g. "the golden mountain does not exist" or "the round square is self-contradictory." Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

The assumption of a first unconditioned link in the chain of cosmical conditions is self-contradictory. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics

I.—You have done well to reveal these mysteries to me, for otherwise I should have thought you self-contradictory. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.

This part of his encyclical is absolutely self-contradictory. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891

This was naturally a good deal dashed by the coming interview with Madge's mother, about whose unknown personality there began to cluster some self-contradictory ideas. Despair's Last Journey

Now it might, of course, be argued that this object, unlike the round square, is not self-contradictory, but merely non-existent. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Then there is no room left for the uncalled for and self-contradictory remark of Sir W. Muir, that at Medina "Intolerance quickly took place of freedom; force, of persuasion." A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885

Marx says that he and Engels "inserted this appropriation of ground rent by the State among many other demands," which, as also stated in the Manifesto, "are self-contradictory and must be such of necessity." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement

A certain appearance comes in here of a self-contradictory character, for Mr. Boott was primarily modest and sensitive, and all his interests and pre-occupations were with life's refinements and delicacies. Memories and Studies

Williams replied with the term, self-contradictory no doubt but effective enough to rile a Jamaican legislator in the early part of the eighteenth century. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

It was formerly supposed that infinite numbers, and the mathematical infinite generally, were self-contradictory. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

He is hesitating and obscure, and at times apparently self-contradictory. A Short History of Greek Philosophy

This is what Marx means when he says that every such measure is "self-contradictory and must be such of necessity." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement

The inscription, however, as given by Fuller, is at all events self-contradictory. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth

He is an obscure writer, and often self-contradictory. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

The "Social Contract" is full of inaccuracies in its references to history; it is often self-contradictory, and it has not even the merit of originality. The Rise of the Democracy

The things revealed must not be opposed to the divine perfections, and they must not be self-contradictory: a thing is above reason and contrary to reason when opposed to these principles. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology

The State platform of the Socialist Party of New York in 1910, while seemingly self-contradictory in certain of its phrases, makes the sharpest distinctions between Socialism and "State Socialist" reform. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement

The most varied accounts have been given of the origin of this jeu d'esprit; and even Garrick's, which was meant to supersede and correct all others, is self-contradictory. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series

To constitute a bull, there must be something glaringly self-contradictory in the statement. History of English Humour, Vol. 2

The more monstrous the slander, the more absurd and self-contradictory it might be, the more eagerly it was made. Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.

The view of three persons in one God is "self-contradictory, opposed to all right reason, positively absurd." History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology

And if the precept not to commit injustice leaves the guilty one free to repair or not to repair, that precept is self-contradictory and has no meaning at all. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

No. Rational beings would do nothing so self-contradictory. Operation Terror

The King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, takes pleasure in a self-contradictory policy, whereby he misleads and confuses the world. The Schemes of the Kaiser

The received and self-contradictory view is exceedingly simple and intelligible in its statement; it is well adapted, not merely for all the commoner purposes of life, but even for most scientific purposes. Practical Essays

To talk about the fauna and flora of Sahara sounds in their ears like self-contradictory nonsense. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

Let them be assured of this, that whether the doctrine be true or false, it is not necessarily a doctrine self-contradictory. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series

To say that Mind is material, or that evil is Mind, is a misapprehension of being,—a mistake which will die of its own delusion; for being self-contradictory, it is also self-destructive. Unity of Good

These lessons, which were in this way made so attractive, and whose merits spoke for themselves, showed, however, when it came to practical application, an unpractical, I had almost said, a self-contradictory aspect. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore.

Now in the mode of action suggested there is nothing self-contradictory; but in the use of the word "miracle" there is a mistake of relativity. Practical Essays

It is there ingeniously argued that, when we examine with care the fundamental concepts of the science of mechanics, we find them to be self-contradictory and absurd. An Introduction to Philosophy

Sabatier is right in saying that a religion without doctrine is a self-contradictory idea. Preaching and Paganism

The Test Act was also passed, a thing so self-contradictory in its terms that any man might take it whose sense of humour overcame his sense of honour. A Short History of Scotland

But, in general, working architects were rather contemptuous of Ruskin's fine-spun theories, which they ridiculed as fantastic, self-contradictory, and super-subtle; rhetoric or metaphysics, in short, and not helpful art criticism. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

A paradox, as a self-contradictory statement, arrests the attention in the initial sentence of an article. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers

They set us a self-contradictory task, and regard our failure to accomplish it as proof of their position. An Introduction to Philosophy

Naturally enough Kant's allegation that mathematical first principles are so self-contradictory that you can rigidly demonstrate mathematical propositions which contradict each other was grist to the Hegelian mill. Recent Developments in European Thought

Wordsworth was wrong and self-contradictory without doubt; but Coleridge was equally wrong and self-contradictory in arguing that metre necessitated a language essentially different from that of prose. Aspects of Literature

Madness perhaps it is, and great madness, to seek to penetrate into the mystery of the Beyond; madness to seek to superimpose the self-contradictory dreams of our imagination upon the dictates of a sane reason. Tragic Sense Of Life

All things begin from unity and end in unity: the Absolute can contain nothing self-contradictory. Christian Mysticism

Both passages—though, as far as I can see, self-contradictory—appear to be written with the same absence of levity. Modern Mythology

Popular Sovereignty is self-contradictory, unless it is expressed in a manner favorable to its own perpetuity and integrity. The Promise of American Life

There was little to choose between the two self-contradictory courses, and each had its partisans. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875

Man's saving faculty of logic was in him, but tongue-tied; and he could not express his intuitive recognition of the self-contradictory. At a Winter's Fire

First we must realize the logical difficulty of the step—its apparently self-contradictory nature. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

Drawing his chair close up to her he began a series of penitent and self-contradictory excuses which Marcella soon broke in upon. Marcella

All their apology throughout has been a clumsy tissue of self-contradictory lies, and their occasional hypocrisy has been hastily pretended and ill-conceived. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index

He remains loyal to the deliverances of his moral consciousness and accepts as equally valid, beliefs which the intellect finds to be self-contradictory: holding that knowledge on such matters is impossible. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

He was thus saved from mixed metaphors, the common fault of imaginative writings which are directed to no end, and thus are liable to become first lawless, then false, finally self-contradictory and absurd. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4

Aristotle," he says, "although he disagrees with himself, and says many things that are self-contradictory, yet testifies that one Supreme Mind rules over the world. Sermons to the Natural Man

The other part of their reason is no less ridiculous and self-contradictory, viz., Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive

It has been proved that whatever notions we have about the objective world are all self-contradictory, and thus groundless and false. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

And he rejects this knowledge, not only because our thoughts are self-contradictory in themselves, but because the failure of a speculative solution of these problems is necessary to morality. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

And she was the most seductive, tantalizing, self-contradictory object for study in the whole of Bursley. The Price of Love

These two propositions, superficially perhaps self-contradictory, are not really so. The Human Machine

We condemn this church-rending and soul-ruining sentiment, and testify against all who maintain it, for the following reasons: First, on their part it is inconsistent and self-contradictory. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive

More curious still was the double, self-contradictory sensation of feeling both righteous and sinful. Mr. Prohack

The knowledge that such reality is, is surely a relation between that reality and consciousness, and, if so, the assertion of an unknowable reality is self-contradictory. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

His attitude towards the bank-notes was, quite naturally, illogical and self-contradictory. The Price of Love

Such phrases as "practicing humility" seem self-contradictory--when one begins to practice humility it becomes something else. Our Lady Saint Mary

Which unfaithful warning concludes with a self-contradictory form of prayer, enjoined upon all under the inspection of said Synod. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive

In this classification a place is given to goodness which is comparatively high, and yet "subordinate" and "self-contradictory." Recent Tendencies in Ethics

And there are not many people sanguine enough to believe with Mr. Huxley and Mr. Herbert Spencer, that, if we add two self-contradictory theories together, or hold them alternately, we shall find the truth. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

Also, we condemn and reject the Pittsburgh Bond, as ambiguous, self-contradictory and treacherous—"a snare on Mizpah." The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia, October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and Positions Respectively

It was one of the objections against the Bible, was his peevish reflection, that it was self-contradictory in its assertions, and unmistakably distinct only in its denunciations of wrath. Bred in the Bone

To act on anything means to get into it somehow; but that would mean to get out of one's self and be one's other, which is self-contradictory, etc. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

And you can seldom get through even a whole paragraph without being monotonous, or irrelevant, or unintelligible, or self-contradictory, or broken-minded generally. The Crimes of England

And absolute scepticism is easily shown to be self-contradictory. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

The commonest Latin phrases, which the dullest schoolboy could not mistranslate, he misunderstands, turning the pleasant sense of the worthy commentator into the most self-contradictory nonsense. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator

The thing in itself, which is to produce the material of representation by affecting the senses, is a self-contradictory idea. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

But if you consider the pluralistic horn to be intrinsically irrational, self-contradictory, and absurd, I can now say no more in its defence. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

He may have been at times fanatical on his idea, and have misused it, till it became self-contradictory, because he could not see the correlative truths which should have limited it. Literary and General Lectures and Essays

"Why should I be moral," has no answer, because it is self-contradictory. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

This happens when a man obstinately refuses to acknowledge plain truths, and persists in maintaining what is self-contradictory. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

The ultimate religious ideas are self-contradictory and untenable. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

Kant's monistic successors have in general found the data of immediate experience even more self-contradictory, when intellectually treated, than Kant did. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

Even now, with an interval of fifteen years to clear it up for me, I still find a mass of impressions of Marion as confused, as discordant, as unsystematic and self-contradictory as life. Tono Bungay

Psychologically and in principle, the precept "Love your enemies" is not self-contradictory. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature

She dwelled much upon her dreams of the child, but proved self-contradictory about the matter of her death, as well as about her own history. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology

The more he thought, the more inexplicable and self-contradictory her conduct appeared. There & Back

We can make the thing seem self-contradictory whenever we wish to. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

He appeared composed after having requested me to do something self-contradictory and wanting logic, and on top of that suspects my sincerity. Botchan (Master Darling)

In mystical literature such self-contradictory phrases as "dazzling obscurity," "whispering silence," "teeming desert," are continually met with. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature

We found this youngster all along to be evasive, shifting and self-contradictory, even on vital points. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology

The phrase "vulgar lady," therefore, is an absurdity; there is no such thing; as well talk of a white blackbird; the term is self-contradictory. Manners and Social Usages

It might be true somewhere, you say, for it is not self-contradictory. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

Nevertheless Rousseau finds a means of accomplishing the impossible and the self-contradictory. Moral Philosophy

What a strange, bewildered, self-contradictory chaos of belief and intention is revealed in poor, miserable Saul's parting words! Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII

We shall see that confused and self-contradictory answers are given by criticism to all these questions by scholars who hold that the Epics are not the product of one, but of many ages. Homer and His Age

Mere physical research, its achievements, its certitudes, even its conflicting and self-contradictory hypotheses, having got lumped together in many minds under this one title Science, the title is now sacred. First and Last

The truth is that which you implicitly affirm in the very attempt to deny it; it is that from which every variation refutes itself by proving self-contradictory. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

We have demonstrated that the Sânkhya-system and other systems standing outside the Veda are untenable since they rest on fallacious reasoning and are self-contradictory. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48

If He be not truly God, the accounts which the Scriptures give of Him are self-contradictory. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States

Just as her attitude to her mother was self-contradictory, so was her attitude towards existence. Hilda Lessways

Where amid this crazy dance of self-contradictory fanatics and fools was a sane man to find a place on which to stand? Hyacinth

I may sum up that discussion by saying that whether there really be an absolute or not, no one makes himself absurd or self-contradictory by doubting or denying it. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

If the text did not mean this, it would be self-contradictory, parts of it saying that Brahman is not thought and not understood, and other parts, that it is thought and is understood. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48

The confusion of thought involved even in the attempt to state such a condition shows it to be perfectly inconceivable, for the simple reason that it is self-contradictory and self-destructive. The Creative Process in the Individual

To interpret—not God or Nature—but this self-contradictory being, in both his higher and his lower manifestations and possibilities, remains the chief vocation of the poets. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Then, after further instances of Napoleon's falsehood, and the self-contradictory movements of his disjointed babble, the secretary goes on thus: 'These interruptions, apostrophes, and interrogations, overwhelmed him; he believed himself lost. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2

So it is in general debate: the arguer who wishes to succeed must not use evidence that is self-contradictory. Practical Argumentation

Ah—the argument was self-contradictory, was it, because I could not argue without using the very terms which I repudiated. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face

The quest at once of local colour and cosmopolitanism is not at all self-contradictory. Without Prejudice

The death, if its circumstances were recoverable, and could be liberated from the self-contradictory details in the received report, might do something to indicate retrospectively the character and tenor of that life. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1

But the doctrine of Divine omnipotence is misconceived when it is interpreted to mean that GOD is able to accomplish things inherently self-contradictory. Religious Reality

They are not in fact self-contradictory, but only contradictory of certain rather obstinate mental prejudices. The Problems of Philosophy

For that one should sacrifice his own happiness, his true wants, in order to promote that of others, would be a self-contradictory maxim if made a universal law. The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

The idea of matter feeling without any senses seems to me unintelligible and self-contradictory. Emile

Can you say that such traditional and self-contradictory records as the four gospels are history in the strict sense of the term? The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan

She did not like her new character at all; it mortified her, and seemed self-contradictory as well as derogatory. Love Me Little, Love Me Long

He is essentially and obviously a fragment: taken as the sum-total of reality he would be self-contradictory. The Problems of Philosophy

Now, the possibility of a thing can never be proved from the fact that the conception of it is not self-contradictory, but only by means of an intuition corresponding to the conception. The Critique of Pure Reason

Those directions will cease to be self-contradictory, if you will only separate in your thought the two methods. An Introduction to Yoga

But thought, loosened from a material basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild 552:21 with freedom and so be self-contradictory. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures

"I would have gone," said the self-contradictory Henry, "only the Grevilles are always at one for being like a girl." The Stokesley Secret

In their virtuous haste to prove him a liar, they have overlooked the fact that the words, as they stand, are unintelligible, and the argument self-contradictory. Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time

For although a cognition may be perfectly accurate as to logical form, that is, not self-contradictory, it is notwithstanding quite possible that it may not stand in agreement with its object. The Critique of Pure Reason

He wandered about and waited; he talked to the few people he knew, who found him for the first time rather self-contradictory. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2

But these attractions passed, the little attendant blemishes and imperfections of this self-contradictory girl began again. Armadale

Thus quaintly self-contradictory in the upper part of her face, she was hardly less at variance with established ideas of harmony in the lower. No Name

They are in favor of the Soviet Government, but hanker after Free Trade, not understanding that the two things are self-contradictory. The Crisis in Russia

We expect, therefore, to find in it a determinate, but at the same time, infinite, number of parts—which is self-contradictory. The Critique of Pure Reason

Concerning the otherside way of looking at things and the self-contradictory bearing of the maiden Florence. The Mirror of Kong Ho

It seemed to those philosophers who criticized his mode of discussion that his purpose was to deny completely both of two self-contradictory propositions—which is absurd. The Critique of Pure Reason

Surely, this self-contradictory girl had perversely accomplished one contradiction more, by developing into a character which was out of all harmony with her own Christian name! No Name

It is affirmed that there is one and only one conception, in which the non-being or annihilation of the object is self-contradictory, and this is the conception of an ens realissimum. The Critique of Pure Reason

The proposition therefore—if all causality is possible only in accordance with the laws of nature—is, when stated in this unlimited and general manner, self-contradictory. The Critique of Pure Reason

To suppose the existence of a triangle and not that of its three angles, is self-contradictory; but to suppose the non-existence of both triangle and angles is perfectly admissible. The Critique of Pure Reason

If this thing is annihilated in thought, the internal possibility of the thing is also annihilated, which is self-contradictory. The Critique of Pure Reason

The two propositions are perfectly consistent with each other, because phenomena as phenomena are in themselves nothing, and consequently the hypothesis that they are things in themselves must lead to self-contradictory inferences. The Critique of Pure Reason

单词	self-contradictory
例句	self-contradictory I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero and infinity made the simple acts of taking tangents and finding areas appear to be self-contradictory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But as “Hero” later acknowledges, Lawrence was much too complicated and self-contradictory to fit any one-word label. Books Of the Times: Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert 2010-11-21T22:37:00Z In a particularly exciting section of “Ugliness,” on “ugly sound,” Henderson excavates the self-contradictory but undeniable fact that aesthetic advances—discoveries of new species of beauty—have often been spurred on by ugliness. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z In an optically complex, visually self-contradictory dress with a two-tone, long-sleeve blouse atop a pleated silk skirt, she wears Dada on her sleeve. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The woman involved in Julian’s betrayal is self-contradictory, even pathetic. Double the Trouble in a Novel of Hollywood Marriages 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z It doesn’t take much digging to find the sort of piquant detail that makes Fischer such a curious character, one far livelier and self-contradictory than the grayed-out version shown by Zwick. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z I grant that the term “atheist church” sounds clunky and self-contradictory, because these areas of human interaction have historically been claimed by religion and our language doesn’t have good non-religious words for them. Atheist churches: A new type of secular community 2013-12-03T16:23:00Z Without question, Reed was capable of highly self-contradictory behavior. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Often we see bodies leaning two ways at once — the lower body is forward, while the torso plunges back — but this self-contradictory mood is jubilant, unconflicted. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Symphony #9’ Has City Center Premiere 2012-10-20T02:30:07Z And all those knowingly self-contradictory epigrams, simultaneously flippant and deathly serious, almost like Zen koans: coming at eternal truth by a sort of profound, solemn mischievousness. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z This would certainly be a quixotic, self-contradictory mission, but it was a mission nonetheless, and on my first day, I almost completely failed. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z Shapiro’s vision of materialist America is brutally honest, complex, and self-contradictory. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z It also works, more intuitively, as a glimpse at the self-contradictory components at play in any personality. Paul Laffoley ’s ‘Bauharoque ’: deep thoughts, pretty to look at 2013-04-18T21:49:50Z In fact, he is so full of self-serving, self-contradictory nonsense throughout the whole thing that he’s making Donald Trump seem lucid and considerate by comparison. “The Fat Jew” defends himself and comes up short: Even on “the cutting edge of the Internet,” stealing actually is “a matter of right or wrong” 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z It's a great phrase and, as Grosz rightly decides, a better explanation of self-contradictory human behaviour than "splitting", because its larger truth has been hewn from firsthand knowledge. The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – review 2013-01-27T07:01:24Z Look — they seem to say — how fabulously these people look at the same time both peculiar and natural, self-contradictory and touching. Review: The Humanity of Yvonne Rainer’s Natural and Peculiar Dances 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Despite his apparently easy command of its deliberately self-contradictory gestures, Salonen judged balance within the overall sound picture to a nicety; nothing was overstated, even at the biggest climaxes. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-06-29T17:30:01Z And after the death this past Tuesday of Elizabeth Wurtzel, the “Prozac Nation” author and 1990s-angst poster child, our confused, self-contradictory cohort may have lost the most Gen X member of us all. Elizabeth Wurtzel Finally Grew Up, Like the Rest of Gen X 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z And they behave in ways that are perfectly consistent with their sometimes self-contradictory beliefs. ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid,’ With Cherry Jones 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z It then shared a link to its definition of oxymoron: “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’ Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The Baldung drawing reminds the viewer of something that becomes a powerful leitmotif of the exhibition: that many of these works insist on operating in wildly different, even self-contradictory ways. Review \| Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z He teaches them to deal with hecklers, to howl and wail and strut just like their male idols, and preaches a passionate if self-contradictory brand of macho feminism. Movie Review \| 'The Runaways': Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Rock ?n? Roll Idols 2010-03-18T22:06:00Z "If North Korea ever invades the South again, it will be self-contradictory, where a U.N. member state would be attacking the U.N. Command," Shin told the meeting. UN members concerned China, Russia helping North Korea -US' Austin 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z "Over the past two days, we have seen the U.S. government and media releasing a great deal of inconsistent information on the so-called allegation ... This is a display of the 'self-contradictory USA'," Wang said. China says allegations of Chinese spying in Cuba are false 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The simplest explanation for Musk's ever-more-hilarious self-contradictory behavior as the new boss of Twitter is that the man is a narcissist and a hypocrite. Elon Musk's censorship spree exposes the fundamental flaw in the right's definition of "free speech" 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The lies are so silly and often so self-contradictory — and the people disseminating so obviously evil — that these texts just feel like confirming what we already knew. Brainstorming a coup: Meadows' text reveal the anatomy of Trump's Big Lie 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z A few years back I made up the self-contradictory term “prosperity bomb” to try to describe the disparate impacts of tech wealth descending on a town. Prosperity bomb 2.0? Bellevue passes Manhattan in housing prices 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Such debates were possible because the document was, Feldman stipulates, “self-contradictory” in its provisions on slavery. Review \| An indictment of Abraham Lincoln as a ‘constitutional dictator’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Yet this approach is hopelessly self-contradictory and incoherent. Column: Republicans are trying to drag free preschool and college into the culture war 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Never one for strict coherence, Mr. Jones seems to be reaching for new levels of incoherence, Mr. Friesen added, “so reactive, so self-contradictory, day to day.” Alex Jones’s Podcasting Hecklers Face Their Foil’s Downward Slide 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z What generates doubts about the administration’s commitment to rigorous vaccine testing and oversight is an approach that combines adherence to a political timeline and confused and self-contradictory messaging in all other respects. Column: Trump's plot for a pre-election vaccine puts politics before science 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Yet, neither the early-novel invocation of the self-contradictory rule nor the late-novel revelation of false constructions to exert power are what we find in contemporary journalism. Opinion \| Readers critique The Post: A memorial that could be the first step of many toward a reckoning 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Li may not mean to sound self-contradictory; writing is a deliberative act in any language. Telling stories to bury the dead: Yiyun Li's novel about the deepest grief 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Trump’s shifting and often self-contradictory comments are a feature of his nightly briefings, where questions and specifics typically drown in a sea of self-lavished superlatives. Trump's improvised medicine show prompts frantic health warnings 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z “It is self-contradictory to ask for sharing of military intelligence while calling South Korea untrustworthy in the security domain,” Moon said. Under U.S. pressure, South Korea holds off ending intelligence pact with Japan 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z His alter egos are self-contradictory and, one might even say, complex. The misunderstood humor of Danny McBride 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z They were also self-contradictory, given that, elsewhere in the very same opinion, he faulted the court majority for “echoing the din of suspicion and distrust that seems to typify modern discourse.” Opinion \| John Roberts said there are no Trump judges or Obama judges. Clarence Thomas didn’t get the memo. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z “Progressive neoliberalism” might sound self-contradictory, she notes, but it “combined an expropriative, plutocratic economic program with a liberal-meritocratic politics of recognition,” such that: Time for a change: Can 2020 Democrats break free from the failures of neoliberalism? 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z There was also a side benefit here: Watching one Republican after another advance this self-contradictory, dishonest nonsense was enough to drive any viewer of good faith slightly mad with rage. Michael Cohen issues a gripping, sobering warning on Trump's corruption: But will it matter? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Here’s where Giuliani’s spin goes off the rails -- and is self-contradictory. Analysis \| Rudy Giuliani’s Pinocchio-laden interview on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Those framers understood, as did America's founders, that birthright citizenship is inherently self-contradictory. Right’s attack on birthright citizenship: A new front in the battle for the Constitution 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Those framers understood, as did America’s founders, that birthright citizenship is inherently self-contradictory. Opinion \| Citizenship shouldn’t be a birthright 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z There were so many moments where the man claiming to speak for Trump made literally no sense, as if he was trying to make himself look like a self-contradictory buffoon. Donald Trump perfects the art of the self-contradictory interview \| Richard Wolffe 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The Orbital Reflector presented an opportunity to ‘‘get messy . . . to make something that’s beautiful, but also self-contradictory, and tries to challenge common sense.’’ Art for a Post-Surveillance Age 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Richardson also points to other apparently self-contradictory comments made by lawmakers when advancing House Bill 2433, which imposed a new sales tax on car purchases. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z For Trump’s most avid supporters, voting for Trump isn’t really about a set of desired policies, especially since he is vague and often self-contradictory on that front anyway. No regrets for Trump voters: The media needs to stop looking for buyers’ remorse 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z In is 1938 annual message to Congress, he defended his decision, noting how self-contradictory his critics were: The GOP’s biggest budget lies: Take these down, and progressives will start to win 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z You can tell that it’s nothing more than permission for an indulgence, because it’s so inherently self-contradictory. Perspective \| Military academy athletes shouldn’t get a break on their service, just time to do it 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The Daily Mail describes Sir Keir's stance as incoherent and self-contradictory, leaving the impression that Labour is in favour of both leaving the EU and remaining in it. Newspaper headlines: New Madeleine clues and Ivanka in Berlin - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Journal editorial page normalized and downplayed the madness by describing Trump’s erratic lying and nonsensical, self-contradictory superlatives as “unconventional” — “Trump at his Trumpiest,” they wrote. Lies and pollution: Trump loyalists are willing to poison their bodies as well as their minds 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z “Just to begin with, this is about half of what he said publicly and he’s self-contradictory,” O’Brien said. The president’s secret: Trump once told NYC his net worth was much lower than what he said publicly 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z “Not because of people like me who would like him to fail, but because the ideas that guide him are inherently self-contradictory.” Soros: Trump a 'would-be dictator' who will rattle markets 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z However, your analysis is full of the same self-contradictory statements which characterize economits and financial analysts everywhere. 2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?) 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z For one thing, while populist parties necessarily protest against elites, this does not mean that populism in government will become self-contradictory. Trump, Erdoğan, Farage: The attractions of populism for politicians, the dangers for democracy 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z And Mr. Trump’s grab bag of economic proposals is too self-contradictory to provide a sense of where he would land. Rethinking the Role of Government in Society 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He said the FCC’s explanation for its new regulatory treatment of broadband providers “is watery thin and self-contradictory.” FCC’s Net-Neutrality Rules Upheld by Appeals Court 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z “Readers should prepare to encounter a more-than-typically self-contradictory Whitman; his primary claims tilt from visionary to reactionary, commonsensical to nonsensical, egalitarian to racist, pacific to bloodthirsty – and back again,” he says. Walt Whitman revealed as author of 'Manly Health' guide 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z In designing the two-story center within the shell of a former lumberyard structure, Stephen Yablon Architecture was given a seemingly self-contradictory mission. New Planned Parenthood Center in Queens Says ‘Welcome’ in Many Ways 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The self-contradictory argument is founded in her self-branding as “a progressive who gets things done.” Hillary Clinton’s progressive problem: The real policy differences between her and Bernie Sanders can actually be quantified 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s easy to forget just how plain nutty and self-contradictory the original birther thing was. Ted Cruz isn't presidential material, but not because of where he was born \| Jeb Lund 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z There is no obvious agenda to the film, other than to demonstrate, simply by showing, that the title is not self-contradictory. TV Picks: 'Of Oz the Wizard,' 'Autism in Love,' 'Doc Martin' 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z We want to embody our consciences on our plates, but the reason it’s so confusing and self-contradictory is that there is no way to climate-proof your diet. What Milk Should I Drink? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z But what bosses need now is a book on how to prevent such organisations from becoming self-contradictory and conflict-ridden ones. A palette of plans 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Usually, the gurus’ advice amounts to self-contradictory, wishful thinking pablum. Why The Best Leadership Involves 'Downward Mobility' 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Goodell’s response – “No, we certainly didn’t...but what we saw yesterday was extremely clear, it was extremely graphic, and it was sickening”-- was blatantly self-contradictory. The Year in Sports Media He’s taken on the task of crafting a punitive, stingy, self-contradictory GOP version of a bill to deal with the border crisis that most of his party wants to blame solely on President Obama. The not-so-secret GOP strategy for everything: Do nothing, and blame Obama 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z And, like a sad old idiot, it got me thinking about the 80s – that most self-contradictory of decades. Choose life! Why video games could do with a 1980s' touch 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Taken together, these actions and reactions show that people are complex, confusing, and often self-contradictory. What Boston Showed about Human Nature 2013-04-23T10:45:00.383Z The modern equivalent is probably the purposefully self-contradictory “toilet paper doesn't grow on trees.” Toilet Issue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We ve Wiped 2013-03-08T13:15:00.273Z No, because while the Indian system is a daily soap opera of small crises, the big crisis of China's self-contradictory system of Leninist capitalism is yet to come. Come on, India! Show us that freedom can outdo tyranny 2013-01-31T08:00:02Z Instead, he told the court, the defendants made a series of "banal and self-contradictory" statements during their 2009 meeting, many of which were "at best scientifically useless" or, worse, "misleading." Earthquake Experts Convicted of Manslaughter 2012-10-22T20:10:42Z The genealogy of Matthew is self-contradictory, counts thirteen names as fourteen, and omits the names of three kings. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Nor is the Individualism less self-contradictory which bases its theory on the principle that it is the office of civil law to guard the rights of the individual. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z And such combinations of words may sound either self-contradictory or meaningless. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Curious we have the right to call this state of the scientific mind, because it is to critical reflection so certainly self-contradictory. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z For "Christ's Gospel," by which the rest of the Bible is to be tried, is itself a very composite and self-contradictory thing. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Polytheism affirms several Theistic existences—this affirmation being nearly self-contradictory—and also usually affirms at least one non-theistic existence. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The account given by Nicolay and Hay conveys no hint of this, but is confused and self-contradictory. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The only relation the self-contradictory principles have to one another is in the abstract certainty of self; and for this infinitude of subjectivity the universal will, good, right, and duty, no more exist than not. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z In fact, the "critical" view that the only certain truth is truth about the process of knowing seems to be inherently self-contradictory. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z It should not have escaped his notice that this Will is neither uniform nor of assured stability, and that it often wavers and is sometimes self-contradictory. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z That is, Mr. Armstrong thinks that a “sinless moral system from the first is a self-contradictory conception.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z "It is thus manifest that a consciousness of the Absolute is equally self-contradictory with that of the Infinite."—Limits of Religious Thought, pp. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z No alleged occurrence can be ruled out as impossible, then, unless the statement is self-contradictory. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z For these reasons the early “Caucasian” and “Aryan” hypotheses were self-contradictory and inadequate. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Well might the Church exclaim "Save me from my friends!" when a dean acknowledges that her God is a self-contradictory phantom; oddly enough, however, the Church likes it, and accepts this fatal championship. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z But a humanity, from the first enjoying immunity from suffering, and yet possessed of nobility of character, is a self-contradictory conception.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The precise nature of this individuality was very difficult to gauge: it was dubious, complex, perhaps self-contradictory. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z If it is assumed that the first infinite number is reached by a succession of small steps, it is easy to show that it is self-contradictory. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z It may well seem a puzzle to us how a normal child of five or six can complacently set down this self-contradictory scheme of a human head. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z To test this assertion, we—after noting that Bible history is, as has been remarked above, continually self-contradictory—turn to other histories and compare the Bible with them. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z My first objection is, that to me the definition is on the face of it so self-contradictory that a negative answer must be given to the question, Is there such a God? Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z "The magistrate found the evidence adduced by the state self-contradictory," Mpanga said. Ugandan court dismisses charges against opposition leader 2011-08-09T17:39:58Z It will be seen that Leibniz regards it as self-contradictory to maintain that the whole is not greater than its part. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The actual difference between Lachmann's Text and those of the earlier Editors is, that his “documentary authority” is partial, narrow, self-contradictory; and is proved to be untrustworthy by a free appeal to Antiquity. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z "In this subordination there is nothing irrational or self-contradictory." Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z Even more self-contradictory is the readiness of young people in Europe to back the interest groups opposed to spending cuts. The Global Temper Tantrum 2011-07-11T05:00:00Z Deronda himself is a prig of the first water; while Gwendolen is self-contradictory all through—like a tangled skein of which you cannot find the end, and therefore cannot bring it into order and intelligibility. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z In this sense, it is not self-contradictory for whole and part to be equal; it is the realisation of this fact which has made the modern theory of infinity possible. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z How self-contradictory, in the first place, is the nature of man! Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z The reckless, incoherent, self-contradictory, incorrect and misleading statements that Mrs. Besant has been freely making latterly in the public press, have only injured her own reputation.... H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z It is self-contradictory, counts thirteen names as fourteen without explanation, and omits the names of three kings without apology. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z All efforts of this kind, made by appealing to the common sentiments of mankind, we have seen are self-contradictory. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z But to say “the particular is the universal” is self-contradictory. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Hence, it is frequently alleged by Edwards, that to deny his conclusions, drawn from foreknowledge, is self-contradictory and absurd; unless we deny foreknowledge itself. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Not only are the religious conceptions embodied in it composite and sometimes self-contradictory, on the literary side it is composite also. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Whether, then, we conceive the actualization as beginning in time or as proceeding from all eternity, it is self-contradictory to suppose the potential as capable of actualizing itself. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Edwards and his followers have not answered these questions—their attempt at a solution is self-contradictory and void. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z But relations, according to Mr Bradley, are found on examination to be self-contradictory and therefore impossible. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z There was nothing to connect them, no common thread upon which they could be strung; all that I had in my possession was a bundle of facts which seemed to be flatly self-contradictory. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z There seemed to be something self-contradictory here, anyhow it was passing strange; and yet, as he went on meditating, he thought he had found the key to the enigma. Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z The conception of the world, including all the phenomena of mind and matter, as the gradual self-manifestation or evolution of a potential being eternally actualizing itself, is a self-contradictory conception. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Liberty thus becomes a self-contradictory conception, and fatalism alone is truth and reality. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z Hegel believed that, by means of a priori reasoning, it could be shown that the world must have various important and interesting characteristics, since any world without these characteristics would be impossible and self-contradictory. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Actually, the Post headline didn’t quite reflect exactly what Graham said, but given the senator’s self-contradictory incoherence, the Post is only partly to blame. Wednesday is a big day for climate change in the Senate 2010-05-10T19:15:00Z Cantor's statement about receiving threats was as melodramatic as it was self-contradictory; he accused Democrats of stirring up trouble by talking about threats, barely a minute after he talked about threats he'd gotten himself. Eric Cantor "very happy" gunfire proved random 2010-03-26T21:53:00Z Some such effects He could not produce without created causes, for such production would be self-contradictory. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The two remaining alternatives, as self-contradictory, are inadmissible. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy It is a common opinion in Germany that our material is in fact too scanty or too self-contradictory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" From the point of view of "logic," as William James might have said, such a version of psychological fact may seem essentially self-contradictory. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude But the error that we blame is extremely manifold and varying; it is in conflict not only with the good and the true, but also with itself; it is self-contradictory. Maxims and Reflections It is the analogue, in relation to will, of what scepticism is in relation to intellect; and it is no less self-contradictory than the latter. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z To attempt to deny them ought to be shown to be self-contradictory. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Ladies are said to hold it as one of their prerogatives to be a little unreasonable in their exactions, and a little self-contradictory in their sentiments. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 That is, without its complete expression, which would be analogous to the self-contradictory task of finding a greatest cardinal number, there can be no cut in the line which is symbolized by it. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It is a self-contradictory history of the relations between Mary and Darnley. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Finally, the Manichean conception of two Supreme, Self-Existent, Independent First Principles is obviously self-contradictory. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z It ought to be possible to show that, granted the Idea of the Good, all the other Ideas necessarily follow, that to assume the Good and deny the other Ideas would be self-contradictory and unthinkable. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Jenny's brain was buzzing with a multitude of self-contradictory impressions. Carnival To speak of the angels as sons and yet say that not one of them individually is a son may be self-contradictory in words, but the thought is consistent and true. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews The indeterminate, self-contradictory, immature character of the Imperial Constitution was the very image of the immature, confused, conflicting political ideas of these Democratic gentlemen. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 Any individualism which overlooks these principles is opposed to welfare, and so self-contradictory. Rural Health and Welfare Zeno, the Eleatic, had shown that multiplicity and motion are not only unreal but even impossible, since they are self-contradictory. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Theology is the most uncandid of all the current sciences; its results are the most self-contradictory; its premisses the most incoherent. Rationalism "Given, too, from one shepherd," hence not self-contradictory and confusing to the listeners. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes On this point the language of authority is distinct, emphatic, unanimous, and self-contradictory. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications At the time when the theory was first formulated, there were many current doctrines which were self-contradictory, and which could, therefore, best be met by the assertion of a truism. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Since all existence is self-contradictory, it follows that nothing exists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy But how could Eugenio make such things—so true and yet so self-contradictory, so mutually repellent—clear to these simple-hearted young correspondents of his? Imaginary Interviews And, besides, it is self-contradictory; for the question is, How can a man commit sin for its own sake on account of the pleasure it affords him? A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Mathematical Infinite, not absolute, 179, 180; capable of exact measurement, therefore limited, 180; infinite sphere, radius, line, etc., self-contradictory, 180, 181. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles "It would be," as he says, "an unsound fancy and self-contradictory, to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" This is self-contradictory, and for Parmenides, therefore, empty space is simply not-being. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Whence finally the conclusion is drawn that assertions are universally self-contradictory. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy But how dark and enigmatical, nay, how self-contradictory, would all such language appear, if they might have been very easily rendered holy and happy! A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory But as this term has just been shown to be self-contradictory, an infinite line can not exist objectively at all. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Now Nitzsch truly feels that Pallas is something altogether more than an allegory, but he has failed to grasp distinctly her mythical character, the objective side of the Goddess, and so gets confused and self-contradictory. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary To speak of things creating themselves would therefore amount to saying that the understanding presents to itself more than it presents to itself—a self-contradictory affirmation, an empty and vain idea. Creative Evolution And secondly, it is all wrong and self-contradictory. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 It is self-contradictory to speak as if a thing by itself could have a constant or any value. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Such expressions as infinite sphere, radius, parallelogram, line, and so forth, are self-contradictory. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Take, e.g. "the golden mountain does not exist" or "the round square is self-contradictory." Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays The assumption of a first unconditioned link in the chain of cosmical conditions is self-contradictory. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics I.—You have done well to reveal these mysteries to me, for otherwise I should have thought you self-contradictory. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. This part of his encyclical is absolutely self-contradictory. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 This was naturally a good deal dashed by the coming interview with Madge's mother, about whose unknown personality there began to cluster some self-contradictory ideas. Despair's Last Journey Now it might, of course, be argued that this object, unlike the round square, is not self-contradictory, but merely non-existent. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Then there is no room left for the uncalled for and self-contradictory remark of Sir W. Muir, that at Medina "Intolerance quickly took place of freedom; force, of persuasion." A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 Marx says that he and Engels "inserted this appropriation of ground rent by the State among many other demands," which, as also stated in the Manifesto, "are self-contradictory and must be such of necessity." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement A certain appearance comes in here of a self-contradictory character, for Mr. Boott was primarily modest and sensitive, and all his interests and pre-occupations were with life's refinements and delicacies. Memories and Studies Williams replied with the term, self-contradictory no doubt but effective enough to rile a Jamaican legislator in the early part of the eighteenth century. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 It was formerly supposed that infinite numbers, and the mathematical infinite generally, were self-contradictory. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays He is hesitating and obscure, and at times apparently self-contradictory. A Short History of Greek Philosophy This is what Marx means when he says that every such measure is "self-contradictory and must be such of necessity." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement The inscription, however, as given by Fuller, is at all events self-contradictory. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth He is an obscure writer, and often self-contradictory. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology The "Social Contract" is full of inaccuracies in its references to history; it is often self-contradictory, and it has not even the merit of originality. The Rise of the Democracy The things revealed must not be opposed to the divine perfections, and they must not be self-contradictory: a thing is above reason and contrary to reason when opposed to these principles. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology The State platform of the Socialist Party of New York in 1910, while seemingly self-contradictory in certain of its phrases, makes the sharpest distinctions between Socialism and "State Socialist" reform. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement The most varied accounts have been given of the origin of this jeu d'esprit; and even Garrick's, which was meant to supersede and correct all others, is self-contradictory. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series To constitute a bull, there must be something glaringly self-contradictory in the statement. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 The more monstrous the slander, the more absurd and self-contradictory it might be, the more eagerly it was made. Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. The view of three persons in one God is "self-contradictory, opposed to all right reason, positively absurd." History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology And if the precept not to commit injustice leaves the guilty one free to repair or not to repair, that precept is self-contradictory and has no meaning at all. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals No. Rational beings would do nothing so self-contradictory. Operation Terror The King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, takes pleasure in a self-contradictory policy, whereby he misleads and confuses the world. The Schemes of the Kaiser The received and self-contradictory view is exceedingly simple and intelligible in its statement; it is well adapted, not merely for all the commoner purposes of life, but even for most scientific purposes. Practical Essays To talk about the fauna and flora of Sahara sounds in their ears like self-contradictory nonsense. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Let them be assured of this, that whether the doctrine be true or false, it is not necessarily a doctrine self-contradictory. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series To say that Mind is material, or that evil is Mind, is a misapprehension of being,—a mistake which will die of its own delusion; for being self-contradictory, it is also self-destructive. Unity of Good These lessons, which were in this way made so attractive, and whose merits spoke for themselves, showed, however, when it came to practical application, an unpractical, I had almost said, a self-contradictory aspect. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Now in the mode of action suggested there is nothing self-contradictory; but in the use of the word "miracle" there is a mistake of relativity. Practical Essays It is there ingeniously argued that, when we examine with care the fundamental concepts of the science of mechanics, we find them to be self-contradictory and absurd. An Introduction to Philosophy Sabatier is right in saying that a religion without doctrine is a self-contradictory idea. Preaching and Paganism The Test Act was also passed, a thing so self-contradictory in its terms that any man might take it whose sense of humour overcame his sense of honour. A Short History of Scotland But, in general, working architects were rather contemptuous of Ruskin's fine-spun theories, which they ridiculed as fantastic, self-contradictory, and super-subtle; rhetoric or metaphysics, in short, and not helpful art criticism. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century A paradox, as a self-contradictory statement, arrests the attention in the initial sentence of an article. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers They set us a self-contradictory task, and regard our failure to accomplish it as proof of their position. An Introduction to Philosophy Naturally enough Kant's allegation that mathematical first principles are so self-contradictory that you can rigidly demonstrate mathematical propositions which contradict each other was grist to the Hegelian mill. Recent Developments in European Thought Wordsworth was wrong and self-contradictory without doubt; but Coleridge was equally wrong and self-contradictory in arguing that metre necessitated a language essentially different from that of prose. Aspects of Literature Madness perhaps it is, and great madness, to seek to penetrate into the mystery of the Beyond; madness to seek to superimpose the self-contradictory dreams of our imagination upon the dictates of a sane reason. Tragic Sense Of Life All things begin from unity and end in unity: the Absolute can contain nothing self-contradictory. Christian Mysticism Both passages—though, as far as I can see, self-contradictory—appear to be written with the same absence of levity. Modern Mythology Popular Sovereignty is self-contradictory, unless it is expressed in a manner favorable to its own perpetuity and integrity. The Promise of American Life There was little to choose between the two self-contradictory courses, and each had its partisans. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 Man's saving faculty of logic was in him, but tongue-tied; and he could not express his intuitive recognition of the self-contradictory. At a Winter's Fire First we must realize the logical difficulty of the step—its apparently self-contradictory nature. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Drawing his chair close up to her he began a series of penitent and self-contradictory excuses which Marcella soon broke in upon. Marcella All their apology throughout has been a clumsy tissue of self-contradictory lies, and their occasional hypocrisy has been hastily pretended and ill-conceived. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index He remains loyal to the deliverances of his moral consciousness and accepts as equally valid, beliefs which the intellect finds to be self-contradictory: holding that knowledge on such matters is impossible. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher He was thus saved from mixed metaphors, the common fault of imaginative writings which are directed to no end, and thus are liable to become first lawless, then false, finally self-contradictory and absurd. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Aristotle," he says, "although he disagrees with himself, and says many things that are self-contradictory, yet testifies that one Supreme Mind rules over the world. Sermons to the Natural Man The other part of their reason is no less ridiculous and self-contradictory, viz., Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive It has been proved that whatever notions we have about the objective world are all self-contradictory, and thus groundless and false. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 And he rejects this knowledge, not only because our thoughts are self-contradictory in themselves, but because the failure of a speculative solution of these problems is necessary to morality. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher And she was the most seductive, tantalizing, self-contradictory object for study in the whole of Bursley. The Price of Love These two propositions, superficially perhaps self-contradictory, are not really so. The Human Machine We condemn this church-rending and soul-ruining sentiment, and testify against all who maintain it, for the following reasons: First, on their part it is inconsistent and self-contradictory. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive More curious still was the double, self-contradictory sensation of feeling both righteous and sinful. Mr. Prohack The knowledge that such reality is, is surely a relation between that reality and consciousness, and, if so, the assertion of an unknowable reality is self-contradictory. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher His attitude towards the bank-notes was, quite naturally, illogical and self-contradictory. The Price of Love Such phrases as "practicing humility" seem self-contradictory--when one begins to practice humility it becomes something else. Our Lady Saint Mary Which unfaithful warning concludes with a self-contradictory form of prayer, enjoined upon all under the inspection of said Synod. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive In this classification a place is given to goodness which is comparatively high, and yet "subordinate" and "self-contradictory." Recent Tendencies in Ethics And there are not many people sanguine enough to believe with Mr. Huxley and Mr. Herbert Spencer, that, if we add two self-contradictory theories together, or hold them alternately, we shall find the truth. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Also, we condemn and reject the Pittsburgh Bond, as ambiguous, self-contradictory and treacherous—"a snare on Mizpah." The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia, October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and Positions Respectively It was one of the objections against the Bible, was his peevish reflection, that it was self-contradictory in its assertions, and unmistakably distinct only in its denunciations of wrath. Bred in the Bone To act on anything means to get into it somehow; but that would mean to get out of one's self and be one's other, which is self-contradictory, etc. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy And you can seldom get through even a whole paragraph without being monotonous, or irrelevant, or unintelligible, or self-contradictory, or broken-minded generally. The Crimes of England And absolute scepticism is easily shown to be self-contradictory. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher The commonest Latin phrases, which the dullest schoolboy could not mistranslate, he misunderstands, turning the pleasant sense of the worthy commentator into the most self-contradictory nonsense. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator The thing in itself, which is to produce the material of representation by affecting the senses, is a self-contradictory idea. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time But if you consider the pluralistic horn to be intrinsically irrational, self-contradictory, and absurd, I can now say no more in its defence. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy He may have been at times fanatical on his idea, and have misused it, till it became self-contradictory, because he could not see the correlative truths which should have limited it. Literary and General Lectures and Essays "Why should I be moral," has no answer, because it is self-contradictory. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher This happens when a man obstinately refuses to acknowledge plain truths, and persists in maintaining what is self-contradictory. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus The ultimate religious ideas are self-contradictory and untenable. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Kant's monistic successors have in general found the data of immediate experience even more self-contradictory, when intellectually treated, than Kant did. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Even now, with an interval of fifteen years to clear it up for me, I still find a mass of impressions of Marion as confused, as discordant, as unsystematic and self-contradictory as life. Tono Bungay Psychologically and in principle, the precept "Love your enemies" is not self-contradictory. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature She dwelled much upon her dreams of the child, but proved self-contradictory about the matter of her death, as well as about her own history. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology The more he thought, the more inexplicable and self-contradictory her conduct appeared. There & Back We can make the thing seem self-contradictory whenever we wish to. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy He appeared composed after having requested me to do something self-contradictory and wanting logic, and on top of that suspects my sincerity. Botchan (Master Darling) In mystical literature such self-contradictory phrases as "dazzling obscurity," "whispering silence," "teeming desert," are continually met with. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature We found this youngster all along to be evasive, shifting and self-contradictory, even on vital points. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology The phrase "vulgar lady," therefore, is an absurdity; there is no such thing; as well talk of a white blackbird; the term is self-contradictory. Manners and Social Usages It might be true somewhere, you say, for it is not self-contradictory. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Nevertheless Rousseau finds a means of accomplishing the impossible and the self-contradictory. Moral Philosophy What a strange, bewildered, self-contradictory chaos of belief and intention is revealed in poor, miserable Saul's parting words! Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII We shall see that confused and self-contradictory answers are given by criticism to all these questions by scholars who hold that the Epics are not the product of one, but of many ages. Homer and His Age Mere physical research, its achievements, its certitudes, even its conflicting and self-contradictory hypotheses, having got lumped together in many minds under this one title Science, the title is now sacred. First and Last The truth is that which you implicitly affirm in the very attempt to deny it; it is that from which every variation refutes itself by proving self-contradictory. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy We have demonstrated that the Sânkhya-system and other systems standing outside the Veda are untenable since they rest on fallacious reasoning and are self-contradictory. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 If He be not truly God, the accounts which the Scriptures give of Him are self-contradictory. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Just as her attitude to her mother was self-contradictory, so was her attitude towards existence. Hilda Lessways Where amid this crazy dance of self-contradictory fanatics and fools was a sane man to find a place on which to stand? Hyacinth I may sum up that discussion by saying that whether there really be an absolute or not, no one makes himself absurd or self-contradictory by doubting or denying it. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy If the text did not mean this, it would be self-contradictory, parts of it saying that Brahman is not thought and not understood, and other parts, that it is thought and is understood. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 The confusion of thought involved even in the attempt to state such a condition shows it to be perfectly inconceivable, for the simple reason that it is self-contradictory and self-destructive. The Creative Process in the Individual To interpret—not God or Nature—but this self-contradictory being, in both his higher and his lower manifestations and possibilities, remains the chief vocation of the poets. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century Then, after further instances of Napoleon's falsehood, and the self-contradictory movements of his disjointed babble, the secretary goes on thus: 'These interruptions, apostrophes, and interrogations, overwhelmed him; he believed himself lost. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 So it is in general debate: the arguer who wishes to succeed must not use evidence that is self-contradictory. Practical Argumentation Ah—the argument was self-contradictory, was it, because I could not argue without using the very terms which I repudiated. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face The quest at once of local colour and cosmopolitanism is not at all self-contradictory. Without Prejudice The death, if its circumstances were recoverable, and could be liberated from the self-contradictory details in the received report, might do something to indicate retrospectively the character and tenor of that life. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 But the doctrine of Divine omnipotence is misconceived when it is interpreted to mean that GOD is able to accomplish things inherently self-contradictory. Religious Reality They are not in fact self-contradictory, but only contradictory of certain rather obstinate mental prejudices. The Problems of Philosophy For that one should sacrifice his own happiness, his true wants, in order to promote that of others, would be a self-contradictory maxim if made a universal law. The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics The idea of matter feeling without any senses seems to me unintelligible and self-contradictory. Emile Can you say that such traditional and self-contradictory records as the four gospels are history in the strict sense of the term? The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan She did not like her new character at all; it mortified her, and seemed self-contradictory as well as derogatory. Love Me Little, Love Me Long He is essentially and obviously a fragment: taken as the sum-total of reality he would be self-contradictory. The Problems of Philosophy Now, the possibility of a thing can never be proved from the fact that the conception of it is not self-contradictory, but only by means of an intuition corresponding to the conception. The Critique of Pure Reason Those directions will cease to be self-contradictory, if you will only separate in your thought the two methods. An Introduction to Yoga But thought, loosened from a material basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild 552:21 with freedom and so be self-contradictory. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures "I would have gone," said the self-contradictory Henry, "only the Grevilles are always at one for being like a girl." The Stokesley Secret In their virtuous haste to prove him a liar, they have overlooked the fact that the words, as they stand, are unintelligible, and the argument self-contradictory. Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time For although a cognition may be perfectly accurate as to logical form, that is, not self-contradictory, it is notwithstanding quite possible that it may not stand in agreement with its object. The Critique of Pure Reason He wandered about and waited; he talked to the few people he knew, who found him for the first time rather self-contradictory. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 But these attractions passed, the little attendant blemishes and imperfections of this self-contradictory girl began again. Armadale Thus quaintly self-contradictory in the upper part of her face, she was hardly less at variance with established ideas of harmony in the lower. No Name They are in favor of the Soviet Government, but hanker after Free Trade, not understanding that the two things are self-contradictory. The Crisis in Russia We expect, therefore, to find in it a determinate, but at the same time, infinite, number of parts—which is self-contradictory. The Critique of Pure Reason Concerning the otherside way of looking at things and the self-contradictory bearing of the maiden Florence. The Mirror of Kong Ho It seemed to those philosophers who criticized his mode of discussion that his purpose was to deny completely both of two self-contradictory propositions—which is absurd. The Critique of Pure Reason Surely, this self-contradictory girl had perversely accomplished one contradiction more, by developing into a character which was out of all harmony with her own Christian name! No Name It is affirmed that there is one and only one conception, in which the non-being or annihilation of the object is self-contradictory, and this is the conception of an ens realissimum. The Critique of Pure Reason The proposition therefore—if all causality is possible only in accordance with the laws of nature—is, when stated in this unlimited and general manner, self-contradictory. The Critique of Pure Reason To suppose the existence of a triangle and not that of its three angles, is self-contradictory; but to suppose the non-existence of both triangle and angles is perfectly admissible. The Critique of Pure Reason If this thing is annihilated in thought, the internal possibility of the thing is also annihilated, which is self-contradictory. The Critique of Pure Reason The two propositions are perfectly consistent with each other, because phenomena as phenomena are in themselves nothing, and consequently the hypothesis that they are things in themselves must lead to self-contradictory inferences. The Critique of Pure Reason
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