-
pragmatic contradiction occurs when the very
statement of the
argument contradicts the
claims it purports. An
inconsistency arises, in this case, because...
- A
contronym or
contranym is a word with two
opposite meanings. For example, the word
original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel,
never done...
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speculative fiction that is
centered on
supernatural themes,
often contradicting naturalist ****umptions of the real world. In its
broadest definition...
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order to then ****ert one's
position as
correct due to it not
having been
contradicted is also
called argumentum ad
infinitum (to infinity) and
argument from...
- reflex-like
tendency to
reject new
evidence or new
knowledge because it
contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms. The term
derives from the name...
-
informal logic. It ****erts that a
proposition must be
false because it
contradicts one's
personal expectations or beliefs, or is
difficult to imagine. Arguments...
- time" of 297
years (AD 614–911)
added to the
Early Middle Ages.
Evidence contradicts the
hypothesis and it
failed to gain the
support of historians, and calendars...
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observed that the
hostility of the Old
Forest and of Old Man
Willow contradicts Tolkien's
otherwise protective stance for wild nature.
Scholars have...
- is no
theory for it.
Water memory is
pseudoscientific in nature; it
contradicts the
scientific understanding of
physical chemistry and is
generally not...
- conservatism) is
maintenance of a
belief despite new
information that
firmly contradicts it.
Since rationality involves conceptual flexibility,
belief ****verance...
