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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

— Denis Villeneuve

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

— Simone Weil

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

— Jim Jarmusch

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

— Shirley MacLaine

✗Opposing Perspectives

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

— Ayn Rand

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

— Ayn Rand

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

— Blaise Pascal