Voorbeelden van self-contradictory

• This constitutes the aporia or self-contradictory result of the criminal's implicit claim of permission to an unlimited liberty.

• The term "dynamic equilibrium" is self-contradictory, since an equilibrium state cannot be dynamic, as no net flow of energy or matters exists.

• The existing bibliography is riddled with inaccuracies, confusions, unchecked assertions and self-contradictory claims, repeated in successive works.

• Despite being self-contradictory, and rendering all evidence for attendance at the court inherently unstable, these are not entirely implausible conjectures.

• It may sound plausible, but in fact it is self-contradictory.

• However, what constituted race for him was really a self-contradictory medley of inherited traits and environmental in_uences.

• It would be self-contradictory to create will without creating knowledge and to create knowledge without creating life.

• One should say this about statutes that are neither self-contradictory nor ambiguous.

• The basis for the first is the intuition that the idea of an agent money pump is self-contradictory.

• The majority of philosophers, however, as well as many other people, dispute this and declare that the idea of something psychical being unconscious is self-contradictory.

• This was a governing practice that was often self-contradictory-and in fact could work only by maintaining such contradiction.

• Rather than serving as curious outposts of a bizarre and self-contradictory religion, mission schools were supported by those who understood their moral, social and humanistic utility.

• Once this credo is clearly stated, the self-contradictory and self-stultifying implication of the program should be clear to the potential reader, who will undertake the reading at his own risk.

• The humor here emerges from the inversion of the standard assumptions that advice is beneficial; the state of affairs invoked - misleading advice - is self-contradictory, literally an impossible description.

• Some provisions were open-ended and self-contradictory.