An
apparent contradiction is a situation where two things appear to be in opposition or conflict, but upon closer examination, it becomes clear that there is actually no inconsistency.
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If you ask questions and get «fuzzy» answers or
even apparent contradictions to what was said before then you need to proceed with great caution when it comes to that individual.
In April 2016, it was reported that Berry had been monitored by the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit, in
apparent contradiction of assurances by Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, that the unit would not target peaceful campaigners.
The Porsche 911
resolves apparent contradictions like no other sports car — such as between tradition and innovation or between exclusivity and high social acceptance, and of course between performance and efficiency.
For many of these supposed or alleged contradictions, you have to do some homework to reconcile it, but usually those who bring them up are not interested in
reconciling apparent contradictions.
They are completely legitimate questions, formed
from apparent contradictions and changes in Dr, Hansen's published data and public comments.
You said, «The scientific world (of which I am a very happy and productive part) is willing to
accept apparent contradictions in its theoretical framework, because the current edifice is the best set of explanations that we currently have.»
Flannery raises the issue of the at - one -
time apparent contradiction between the satellite records (usually taken to be MSU 2LT from the UAH group) and the surface temperature records.
Where there are
apparent contradictions among philosophers, the goal must be to attain a wider vision within which the essential truth of each view can be displayed in its limited validity.9
Perhaps only a postmodern sensibility that routinely
takes apparent contradictions in stride can appreciate how a thoroughly constructivist brain is grounded in the universals of human nature.
Nature is always trying to re-establish harmony, and with the psyche the principle of synthesis is dominant... The task of therapy is to aid the individual in transforming the personality, and
integrating apparent contradictions.
This paradox is understandable because the
same apparent contradiction characterizes the life of man; for man has departed from God, but God has come to man.
Perhaps rather than
fearing apparent contradictions, we should celebrate them, knowing that they serve as affirmation that God speaks to all kinds of people in all kinds of ways.
[9] Sam Hunter offered a more positive view in 1972: «The situation of open possibilities which confronted artists in the first years of the seventies allowed a variety of means and many fertile idea systems to coexist, reconciling through the poetic
imagination apparent contradictions.»
The poster's main objectives were to show that there has been an ongoing increase in Antarctic ice extent since the late 70s, that the IPCC report hasn't acknowledged this and that there is in fact a suspicious
looking apparent contradiction in the IPCC reporting of Antarctic ice extent.
In a recent research article called Beyond Positive Psychology, McNulty and Fincham give some specific examples of research on relationships where certain contexts
cause apparent contradictions of Positive Psychology findings.
Throughout this discussion we have insisted upon God's suffering, in
apparent contradiction of the common assumption that God dwells in unbroken bliss.
The scientific world (of which I am a very happy and productive part) is willing to
accept apparent contradictions in its theoretical framework, because the current edifice is the best set of explanations that we currently have.
What are we to make of
this apparent contradiction?
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on
the apparent contradiction.
How to explain
the apparent contradiction?
Veblen goods are types of luxury goods for which the quantity demanded increases as the price increases in
an apparent contradiction of the law of demand.
But all one has to do is look close and see all
the apparent contradictions these actual strcutures have — they are becoming «old wineskins» (full of holes and running out of use).
In the case of
apparent contradictions and errors, we are assured that the true interpretation of these passages, this higher understanding, will eliminate these.
The Biblical literalist is, however, quite willing to admit that there are
apparent contradictions in the Bible.
The Bible can be trusted, and when the supposed «contradictions» are studied within their contexts and from a historical perspective, we see that most of
the apparent contradictions disappear, and in fact, even support the reliability and accuracy of the Bible.
It is only when we detach «texts of Scripture» that there are
apparent contradictions in the sayings of Christ.
The research team have solved
this apparent contradiction not with fractals but with the velocity of blood flow, which is proportional to M1 / 12.
The Christian idea of man can be stated in the form of five paradoxes, each uniting
an apparent contradiction.
Further, even the most complete text that can be constructed from the early editions has glaring lacunae and
apparent contradictions.
Analysis of
an apparent contradiction between these two passages of scripture, indicating a «wicked sense of humor on someone's part.»
Faith and reason are separate magisteria,
any apparent contradiction is merely apparent, and we shouldn't feel pressure to resolve our views one way or the other.
The resolution to
this apparent contradiction is to notice that Paul was addressing two different sets of circumstances.