Contradiction

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Logic

Foundational Lexiconcan't both be true
Executive Parlancelogical impossibility
Scholarly Discourseself-negating proposition
Babel ZenithContradiction
Origin: Logic

Etymology & Meaning

A statement that is necessarily false.

In the Boardroom

Identifying mutually exclusive claims in proposals.

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