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Noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkʃən/

Definition 1:
• The act of contradicting.
Example: His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 2:
• A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
Example: There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion and at the same time she should not have that right.
Example: There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.
Labels: countable

Definition 3:
• A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
Example: Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
Labels: countable

Definition 4:
• A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
Labels: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences, countable

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contradiction