The phrase
"internal contradictions" means that within something, such as an argument or a situation, there are conflicting or inconsistent elements or ideas.
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The reason for this is that there is a massive
internal contradiction at the heart of attempts to manage the consumption of alcohol.
When a person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and when cultural patterns deteriorate
through internal contradictions in a society or by external forces, the persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.
To set mercy in opposition to the indissoluble bond of marriage is to set mercy against fidelity, and for someone who believes in the God of Jesus Christ that entails an
irresolvable internal contradiction.
These exceptions are
really internal contradictions that get into the documents because this is committee writing, not Holy Writ, and every group wants its say, including the anti-anthropocentrists.
However — and this is well worth noting — the Bible, without adding
more internal contradiction than is already present in its pages, will also support common sense interpretations of its texts and theologies.
«Unless Tariq Ramadan takes responsibility for his
growing internal contradictions,» Kepel challenges, «they will propel him, like all shooting stars, into the dark night.»
As long as ethical principles and biomedical advances are in tension, it is hard to see how the
deep internal contradictions in public attitudes could resolve themselves, and therefore how today's biotechnology debates could come to any stable end.
Do you really think that all of the authors and reviewers would have overlooked a
basic internal contradiction of logic of the sort you imply, if it actually existed?
Rather, they are the ones that feel as if they are carrying the
most internal contradictions — offhand and purposeful; firmly in control and barreling off a cliff.
Blake compares the drawings in this exhibition to the visual accumulation on urban walls covered with stickers, signage, and graffiti: «Drawings allow
for internal contradiction.
Unless business confidence and recovery can be fostered in the coming months, the country may continue to face a highly uncertain economic and political outlook, even should the radical left government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras manage to survive its
own internal contradictions.
Shah believes that that could be because the prototype constraint prevents the algorithm from assembling feature lists that
contain internal contradictions.
that the Clean Energy Standard is riddled
with internal contradictions, including an outright prohibition on new hydroelectric dams that would also provide zero - emission electricity (but would compete with the solar panels and wind turbines envisioned by Governor Cuomo).
It's hard to avoid
your internal contradictions, long - repressed fears, and incessant need for validation when you're doing nothing but sitting still observing your breath.
The internal contradiction in this industrial and financial class warfare is now clear: To the extent that it succeeds in depressing labor's income, it stifles the domestic consumer - goods market.
In his book Red Holocaust, Steven Rosefielde argues that communism's
internal contradictions «caused to be killed» approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more, and that this «Red Holocaust» — the peacetime mass killings and other related crimes against humanity perpetrated by Communist leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot — should be the centerpiece of any net assessment of communism.
There are factual falsehoods,
internal contradictions, and immoral premises that disqualify them.
I would say that in exposing
the internal contradictions of classical theology Hartshorne has done it a great service and rendered its doctrine of creation much more defensible.
But if there's a lot of
internal contradictions, it destroys the Bible's validity and reliability.
Once
the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent, people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.
«Once
the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent,» Woodfinden writes, «people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.
Although he endorses the consensus view about global warming, in what may be
an internal contradiction Francis describes «the scientific and experimental method» itself as part of the problem.
For some, it has been possible for thirty years to live in The Movement, a cognitive world impervious to
both internal contradictions and challenges from the outside.
I could not honestly defend the document - with all its incoherences and
internal contradictions - before proposed regional meetings, and I thought it did not provide an adequate basis for the pronouncement that was to follow.
Neither will simply criticising
the internal contradictions of secular relativism convince them of the truth of Christ.
Inevitably you are confronted with the fact that the scriptures are full of violence,
internal contradictions, and completely fail the test for historical plausibility.
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