contradictories
contradictories is the plural of contradictory.
Meaning of contradictory
Noun
contradictory (plural contradictories)
- Either of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
- If one proposition is the negation of another, it follows trivially from the definition that the two propositions are contradictories. The converse does not hold. Two propositions can be contradictories without either being the negation of the other. For example:
3) John is more than six feet...2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, §4, page 20
- If one proposition is the negation of another, it follows trivially from the definition that the two propositions are contradictories. The converse does not hold. Two propositions can be contradictories without either being the negation of the other. For example:
Questions about contradictories
- What is contradictories the plural of?
- Contradictories is the plural of contradictory.
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