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• Foundations of Mathematics
• Logic
• General Logic

A sentence is called a contradiction if its truth table contains only false entries.

See also

Consistency Strength, Contingency, Tautology,Truth Table

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References

Carnap, R. Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications. New York: Dover, p. 13, 1958.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Contradiction." FromMathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Contradiction.html

Subject classifications

• Foundations of Mathematics
• Logic
• General Logic