contradictoriality

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

contradictorial +‎ -ity

Noun[edit]

contradictoriality (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of contradictoriness
    • 1984, Gilbert Durand, “Orpherus and Iris 80: the Exploration of the Imaginary”, in A. Hall, E. Callander, transl., edited by Michel Cazenave, Science & Consciousness: Two Views of the Universe, Pergamon Press, →ISBN, PART IV. The Odyssey of Consciousness, page 258:
      By definition – sorry, by hypothesis! – we know that geometry and meaning belong in their origins to different orders of identity and that it is from their contradictoriality that the constituent symbolic factor of Sapiens is born.