Owing to vagueness and contradictions in the Rabbinical teaching it is impossible to state their notions about it with definiteness.
The failure of all attempts at reconciling the seeming contradictions of Scripture must suggest to us that the solution of this problem is beyond the range of our present powers.
I can never look at these apparent contradictions between the great laws of nature without a feeling of physical uneasiness which amounts to suffering.
There is evidently in this mass of contradictions something which revolts us, and which leads us to suspect that the problem contains within it an element of solution which has not been sufficiently disengaged.
Unless I am much mistaken we have here the key to the whole democratic system of government evolved by Jefferson and the solution of the apparent contradictions often pointed out in his system.
No man can remain in public life for half a century without ever falling into contradictions and inconsistencies.
How far he was from having reached that poise and that clear vision of the moral world, appears in the confusion and contradictions of the abstracts collected in the "Literary Bible.
Jefferson felt such a dislike for unnecessary controversies that he was apt to adopt the tone and the style of his correspondents and apparently to accept their ideas, so that many contradictions can be found in these letters.
It is only too evident that perfectly logical constructions do not always fit the complexity and contradictions of human affairs.
As Origen has in himself the germs of all orthodoxy and heterodoxy of the ancient church undeveloped and uncontrasted, so also in Erigena are there the germs of the contradictions of later scholasticism and mysticism.
And since all attempts to reconcile these contradictions by exegetical devices have failed, we can only regard this as a fiction designed to palm off upon Louis of France Rome’s own ambitious territorial scheme.
At each successive stage in our progress fresh contradictions break out, but the ideal of a station at which the thought-process and its other, if not one, are at one, is permissible as a limiting conception.
Contradictions must be annulled by complementation, with resultant increasing coherence in ascending stages.
Many have been the speculations and surmises and assertions and contradictions as to who the 'Lost Leader' was.
But note again those contradictions to which I have so often been obliged to advert.
As the young detective weighed these possibilities and marvelled over the contradictions they offered, he forgot the papers now lying quiet under his hand.
He further implies that, in the transformation to the Italian edition of 1571, there were engrafted upon the narrative manycontradictions and anachronisms, which seriously impair its value.
There are contradictions and anachronisms in them that have forcibly helped Ranke, Hallam, Gerigk, and others to count the text which we have as more or less changed from what must have been the text, if honestly written by Martyr.
Many other contradictions and contrarieties are found daily in these Indians by those who have communication with them and know them, so that in them vices are united to their opposed virtues, as if related.
If all the above-mentioned contradictions of the Indians are malicious, or arise from their lack of understanding, let him who will examine it, for even in this have I found new contradictions.
In truth, these nine Nandas seem in many ways mythical, and yet the very confusion and contradictions which surround their history point to some underlying reason for the palpable distortion of plain fact.
No other supposition explains the extraordinarycontradictions of his rule.
Our faculties fail us when we try to estimate the Deity, and we are betrayed into contradictions and absurdities; but does it therefore follow that He is not?
Euclid's axioms are useful because they are self-evident; and so long as people make mistakes in geometry, it will be necessary to expose their blundering by bringing out the contradictions involved.
It enabled them to point out the inconsistencies and actual contradictions involved in many popular arguments, which are still very far from being destroyed.
We are told that we have no solid ground from reason at all, and that even physical science is as full of contradictions as theology.
Perhaps they may find contradictions in the statement that a human society is both one and many; a unit and yet complex; but I am content to assume that unless we admit the fact, we shall get a very little way in sociology.
One would be inclined to think that these contradictions might have had disastrous consequences.
It will no longer bow to any authority and yet never penetrates to the depths in which the multifarious logical inconsistencies and contradictions find their own solution.
So, most authors fill the first act with contradictions and the last with explanations.
In all the philosophies of the world there are undoubtedly contradictions and absurdities.
This is one of the contradictions in human nature.
For him the oppositions and contradictions of life are too real and persistent.
There is no evil in the world, says pantheism, everything is good--if we could understand things as they really are we should find no oppositions in the universe, and no contradictions in the nature of things.
The contradictions in the ideas and precepts of morality and religion are even more startling.
Apart from statistics, however, the Books of the Pentateuch ascribed to Moses are full of the most flagrant contradictionsand absurdities.
Maybe these contradictions form an inevitable condition of all the phenomena of life.
But these contradictions are as nothing in comparison with the contradiction which has now arisen among men in their international relations, and which, under threat of ruining both human reason and human life, demands a solution.
The contradictions of consciousness and the resulting wretchedness of life have reached the extremest point, beyond which it is impossible to go.
From this lack of correspondence between the life-conception and the practice of life there arises a series of contradictions and sufferings, which poison our life and demand its change.
I have endeavored to blend into one consistent story the seeming contradictionsof the two writers.
There are other contradictions in the Essay, and several of the minor positions are glaringly erroneous.
Many of his arguments are capable of a double construction; absolute contradictions are not uncommon; and when we try to get a connected view of his principles we are irritated by their discordance, indefiniteness, and obscurity.
Such contradictions were the natural consequence of the perfunctory manner in which Pope had picked up his scraps of philosophy.
There are many more contradictions in Pope's epistle, which is a tissue of inconsistency and incoherence.
Regardless of the contradictions to this law in the life of the individual, its supremacy in the life of empires has throughout man's history been decreed and proclaimed.
Tautologies and contradictionsare not pictures of reality.
It is clear that one could achieve the same purpose by using contradictions instead of tautologies.
Tautologies and contradictionsare not, however, nonsensical.
Propositions show what they say; tautologies andcontradictions show that they say nothing.
What contradictions in the economic sphere in particular!
And what contradictions in the social sphere in general!
The process of building up this capital provides an outlet for the old industries and rescues them from the contradictions inherent in deficiency of demand.
Inherent contradictions are resolved by an extension of the outlying fields of production.
Sismondi had laboured in the sweat of his brow, as had Smith and many others, to disentangle the concepts of capital and income from the contradictions of capitalist production.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contradictions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
