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In discourse theory, and computational discourse, contrast is a major discourse relation, on par with relationship like explanation or narration, and work has concentrated on trying to identify contrast in naturally produced texts, especially in cases where the contrast is not explicitly marked.
Mao describes the contradictions in the old society as ones which could not be satisfied by capitalism itself and which required socialist revolution. [3]: 168 In contrast, contradictions within the socialist society could be handled by the people within the socialist system on a continuous basis. [3]: 168–169
In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias . Illustrating a general tendency in applied logic, Aristotle 's law of noncontradiction states that "It is impossible that the same thing can at the same time both ...
In addition, in the first four lines of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Shakespeare contrasts a mistress to the sun, coral, snow, and wire. Contrast is the antonym of simile. In poetic compositions, it is common for poets to set out an elaborate contrast or elaborate simile as the argument.
A pair of an affirmative statement and its negation is, he calls, a 'contradiction' (in medieval Latin, contradictio). Examples of contradictories are 'every man is white' and 'not every man is white' (also read as 'some men are not white'), 'no man is white' and 'some man is white'.
Here is the real problem with wokeness: It is impairing the capacity of professional class institutions to do what they are paid to do.
Contradictions in interests and conflict over scarce resources between groups is the foundation of social society, according to the social conflict theory. [1] The higher class will try to maintain their privileges, power, status and social position—and therefore try to influence politics, education, and other institutions to protect and ...
On Contradiction (simplified Chinese: 矛盾 论; traditional Chinese: 矛盾論; pinyin: Máodùn Lùn; lit. 'To Discuss Contradiction') is a 1937 essay by the Chinese Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong. Along with On Practice, it forms the philosophical underpinnings of the political ideology that would later become Maoism.