Contradictories

Word CONTRADICTORIES
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What do we mean by contradictories?

Either of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.

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The word "contradictories" in example sentences

Whether DeQuincey's writings achieve a similar suspension of contradictories is not a question for this essay to consider, but the fact that L. E.L.'s "Verses" does so is the central aesthetic feature of the poem. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Also all things would on this view be one, as has been already said, and man and God and trireme and their contradictories will be the same. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

"I have learnt that the place wherein Thou art found unveiled is girt round with the coincidence of contradictories, and this is the wall of Paradise wherein Thou dost abide." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some authors prevented such cases by maintaining that not only were terms unable to refer to the propositions in which they occurred, they also could not refer to the contradictories of the propositions in which they occurred. ❋ Spade, Paul Vincent (2009)

Since it is possible that ˜p™ coheres with the belief system of S while ˜not-p™ coheres with the belief system of S*, the coherentist account seems to imply, absurdly, that contradictories, ˜p™ and ❋ David, Marian (2009)

What spurred him to this was that in the assertoric syllogistic Aristotle and others sometimes used contradictories of absolute propositions on the assumption that they are absolute; and that was why so many decided that absolutes did contradict absolutes. ❋ Street, Tony (2008)

It also preserves our intuition on contradictoriness, in the form: A and B are contradictories iff, if A is true, B is false, and if A is false, B is true. ❋ Priest, Graham (2008)

˜Some centaur does not have a tail™ to be contradictories, but both to be false because the subject-term ˜centaur™ is empty. ❋ Simons, Peter (2007)

As Plotter points out, you are describing the difference between contraries and contradictories from the Square of Opposition. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A and O, and E and I, are pairs of contradictories. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ockham's strategy for overcoming Chatton's (and Scotus ') realist results is two-fold: (1) he reforms the principle of contradictories by expansion; and (2) he capitalizes on this expansion by offering an alternative semantic account (connotation theory) which explains what happens when a proposition passes from being true to being false. ❋ Keele, Rondo (2007)

Often called the principle of contradictories, it can be stated as follows: “There can be no passage from contradictory state to contradictory state without the generation or corruption of some thing (res).” ❋ Keele, Rondo (2007)

For it is common with princes (saith Tacitus) to will contradictories, Sunt plerumque regum voluntates vehementes, et inter se contrariae. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is absolutely clear that Ockham's expansion of the principle of contradictories and Chatton's ❋ Keele, Rondo (2007)

Ockham opens up the principle of contradictories by deriving from the proposition, “There can be no passage from contradictory to contradictory apart from the generation or corruption (of some thing)”, the following expansion: ❋ Keele, Rondo (2007)

Clearly this is just Scotus 'principle of contradictories, expressed in clause (iii), with clauses (i) and (ii) added by Ockham. ❋ Keele, Rondo (2007)

It is impossible for contradictories to be successively verified for one and the same thing, except (i) on account of local motion of something, or (ii) on account of the passage of time, or ❋ Keele, Rondo (2007)

Unless we are willing to admit that two contradictories may be true, many questions which lie at the threshold of mathematics and of morals will be insoluble puzzles to us. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There can be no question of the importance of showing that two contraries or contradictories may in certain cases be both true. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And hence the coexistence of opposites in the unity of the idea is regarded by Hegel as the supreme principle of philosophy; and the law of contradiction, which is affirmed by logicians to be an ultimate principle of the human mind, is displaced by another law, which asserts the coexistence of contradictories as imperfect and divided elements of the truth. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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