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Refutation vs. Contradiction — What's the Difference?

Refutation vs. Contradiction — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Refutation and Contradiction

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Refutation

The act of refuting.

Contradiction

In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias.

Refutation

Something, such as an argument, that refutes someone or something.

Contradiction

The act or an instance of contradicting
The witness's contradiction of other testimony.

Refutation

An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
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Contradiction

The state of being contradicted
A supervisor who cannot tolerate contradiction from any subordinate.

Refutation

(proscribed) A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions.

Contradiction

An inconsistency or discrepancy
"Surprisingly few people saw a contradiction between freedom for whites and bondage for slaves" (Adam Hochschild).

Refutation

The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.
Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation.

Contradiction

Inconsistency; discrepancy
Practices that are in contradiction to human rights.

Refutation

The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions;
His refutation of the charges was short and persuasive
In defense he said the other man started it

Contradiction

One that contains elements that oppose or conflict with one another
The phrase "an unmarried husband" is a contradiction in terms.

Refutation

Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something

Contradiction

The act of contradicting.
His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.

Refutation

The act of determining that something is false

Contradiction

(countable) 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.
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.
There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.

Contradiction

(countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.

Contradiction

A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.

Contradiction

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
His fair demandsShall be accomplished without contradiction.

Contradiction

Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
Can he make deathless death? That were to makeStrange contradiction.
We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.
Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.
Of contradictions infinite the slave.

Contradiction

Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas

Contradiction

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false;
The statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction

Contradiction

The speech act of contradicting someone;
He spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction

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