Antilogy

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Self-contradiction; contradiction or inconsistency between different statements by the same person or different parts of the same thing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A contradiction in related terms or ideas. Usually an inconsistency in syllogisms, of a person or group supposedly of one set of ideals.
  • Word Usage
    "The aim is not to ruin arguments by opposing them, as it is the case in the Pyrrhonian ˜antilogy™, but rather to counterbalance a single opinion by taking into account other opinions."