0 expressing one thing that is the opposite of another thing that was already said; saying two things that cannot both be correct: --
He is described as a Texas oil millionaire and environmentalist, which might appear to be self-contradictory.
Some provisions were open-ended and self-contradictory.
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.
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.
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.
This was a governing practice that was often self-contradictory-and in fact could work only by maintaining such contradiction.
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.
The basis for the first is the intuition that the idea of an agent money pump is self-contradictory.
One should say this about statutes that are neither self-contradictory nor ambiguous.