Examples of 'contraries' in a sentence

Meaning of "contraries"

contrary (noun) - In the context of law or logic, evidence presented to contradict or oppose a statement or argument
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  • plural of contrary

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Contraries to the vices by which he had conquered.
All wisdom is but synthesising the contraries.
Two first contraries are possession and privation.
Therefore false and true are not contraries.
He could swiftly interpret contraries by references to differences in situation.
Contraries can not dwell together.
For everything composed of contraries must necessarily be corruptible.
He is the one who presents contraries.
For contraries have contrary effects.
Much can be learned from contraries.
Sub contraries can both be true.
The doubles represent the contraries.
For it is in contraries that generation and decay subsist.
These are the most general contraries.
Reasoning by contraries uses one statement to prove an opposite statement.

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I will describe happiness in order to inspire their contraries.
For contraries by their nature affect the same subject.
Hence it is clear that true and false are contraries.
For contraries exist in one and the same subject.
Nature will not bear contraries.
So it is with all other contraries falling under the category of quality.
From unity that the struggle of contraries arises.
To see the higher unity of contraries enables us to experience the blue consciousness.
It is clear then that our principles must be contraries.
What their contraries are.
It stresses the unification of contraries.
For contraries can not coincide in one and the same subject.
Consistency and repetition are contraries.
Contraries in this case are modifications which affect a subject with respect to its genus.
Can trust itself to go by contraries.
For the upward and downward motions are contraries and are therefore motions towards contrary places.
The therapist must certainly so support or hedge the contraries by.
William Blake said that without contraries there is no progression.
Antithesis is when the structure of the sentence is built upon contraries.
No contraries hold more antipathy than I and such a knave.
Dreams represent the contraries.
Contraries are different, and contrariety is a kind of difference.
See also dreams go by contraries.
Again, the causes of contraries are themselves contrary.
Postmodernity is a harmony of contraries.
Oh, what have my contraries ever been to this.
Being able to receive contraries.
Contraries are never both true, but may be both.
A wrong union of contraries.
Two contraries can not co-exist inside the same subject.
Reasoning by contraries.
Occultism is but relating to the invisible arch that bridges the seeming contraries.
Further, everything that is corrupted has contraries, or is made up of contraries.
The extremes are alike and meet by the law of the analogy of contraries.
If one of two contraries is a quality, the other will also be a quality.

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