Contradiction vs Fallacy - What's the difference?
contradiction | fallacy |
(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.
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument.
As nouns the difference between contradiction and fallacy
is that contradiction is (uncountable) the act of contradicting while fallacy is deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.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.