Contradiction vs Duality - What's the difference?
contradiction | duality |
(uncountable) The act of contradicting.
(countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
(countable) a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
(logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
(projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes.
(mathematics, physics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.
As nouns the difference between contradiction and duality
is that contradiction is the act of contradicting while duality is a classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.contradiction
English
(wikipedia contradiction)Noun
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
