självmotsägelse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- contradiction noun A statement or idea that is inconsistent with another, or that clashes with itself.
- oxymoron noun A figure of speech that pairs two contradictory words for effect, such as "deafening silence."
Senses
självmotsägelse is used for these senses in English:
- 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.
- contradiction (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
- contradiction in terms A phrase or expression in which the component words contradict one another, often unintentionally, or are claimed to do so when seen from a particular point of view.
- oxymoron (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
contradiction — full definition
- noun A statement or idea that is inconsistent with another, or that clashes with itself.
- noun The act of contradicting.
oxymoron — full definition
- noun A figure of speech that pairs two contradictory words for effect, such as "deafening silence."
- noun More loosely, any statement that seems to contradict itself.