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The fundamental form of a contradiction is a pair of propositions, ‘A’ and ‘Not A’, one the negation of the other. If such an explicit contradiction is part of a body of propositions asserted by some individual or group at a given time, it follows that not all those propositions can be true: by thus impairing the reliability of the proponent, the occurrence of the contradiction throws doubt upon the truth of all the other propositions asserted.
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Dummett, M. (2018). Contradiction. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_585
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