Become Less Valuable Together

Create Disorientation

Create Doubt

Create Illegibility

Create Interruption

Create Obscurity

Create Resistance

Create Surprise

Disturb

Increase Friction

Invite Suspicion

Leave Open Questions

Make Complexity Dangerous

Make Coordination Difficult

Refuse Invisibility

Resist Interpretation

Slow Trust

Violate Expectations

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

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

is, as self-contradiction, a method to avoid conforming to one's own taste.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

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

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

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

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

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

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

is not something encountered, but something experienced.

When we go from non-Newtonian physics to Newtonian physics, we do not encounter contradiction but we do experience contradiction' (Lechte 1994 : 4)

is responsible for making us productive whereas agreement leaves us inactive.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

contradiction, n.All

contradiction