Contradictory literature

Contradictory purposes in prisons.

On Being Contradictory

This paper discusses recognizing and producing contradictions. After illustrating the phenomena of contradiction, the paper presents conceptual classes of contradiction and gives an overview of the how they can be recognized. The next part discusses the construction of contradictions, in particular with respect to contradicting historic events. The object of this paper is to examine the computa...

Contradictory Behavior During Genocides

In all large-scale genocides, rescuing occurs alongside killing. Some members of the aggressors’ ethnic group even risk their own lives to save members of the targeted group. Killing and rescuing occur closely together, and even the same persons may engage in both behaviors—killing on one occasion and rescuing on another. This article examines such cases—where the same individuals kill and resc...

The Mirror Has Two Faces: Contradictory Reflections of Donkeys in Western Literature from Lucius to Balthazar

How we represent animals both reflects our attitudes towards them and affects our treatment of them. The donkey has lived alongside humans, bearing their burdens since the time of their domestication over 10,000 years ago. Despite this, they have invariably enjoyed a low status in human cultures, received little appreciation and been treated harshly. We view some animals as being more worthy th...

Paraconsistent logic and contradictory viewpoints

We start by recalling the definition of contradiction from the perspective of the square of opposition, emphasizing that it comes together with two other notions of oppositions, contrariety and subcontrariety. We then introduce the notion of paraconsistent negation as a non-explosive negation; we explain the connection with subcontrariety and why it is better not to talk of contradiction in cas...