A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
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.
The act of contradicting.
A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.
The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.
A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.
A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.
The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man into white and not white.
Division and subdivision; bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; often successive.