Collocations with contradiction

These are words often used in combination with contradiction.

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apparent contradiction
We describe two experiments exploring the interpretive structures used by adults and young children in their reasoning about an apparent contradiction.
complete contradiction
This approach is in complete contradiction to that adopted in the main balance sheet.
direct contradiction
Sometimes some of the constraints obtained from the objects themselves may be in direct contradiction to constraints already present in the action being invoked.
fundamental contradiction
There appears to be a fundamental contradiction here.
inner contradiction
As a result, he comes against another very serious inner contradiction.
internal contradiction
Such a claim would be a flagrant internal contradiction.
logical contradiction
From the fact that ' matter cannot think ' is not, strictly speaking, a logical contradiction, it only follows that the proposition is synthetic, not that it expresses a metaphysical contingency.
obvious contradiction
This conclusion is certainly not an obvious contradiction.
seeming contradiction
Another seeming contradiction to the generalisations about gemination concerns prefixes.
without fear of contradiction
I say without fear of contradiction that the majority of wheat grown this year has been grown at a loss.
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