#+title: contradiction
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Contradiction could be seen as an antagonistic violation of the [[file:20210518213540-law_of_identity.org][law of identity]].
While the law of identity states that $A = A$, i.e. a thing is always equal to
itself, contradiction could mean a violation of the law of identity such that
$A = A \land A \neq A$.

For [[file:20200720100117-hegel.org][Hegel]] and possibly [[file:20200611202011-marx.org][Marx]], a contradiction is a key component of [[file:20210310113839-dialectics.org][dialectic]],
such that two contradictory ideas or forces sublate one another and are resolved
into a new idea, such as the contradiction between being and nothingness, which
is resolved in the idea of "becoming."

For [[file:20200720100117-hegel.org][Hegel]], a contradiction was merely the product of [[file:20210518214342-reason.org][reason]].