All 3 Uses of
contradict
in
Notes from the Underground
- And in particular it may be more advantageous than any advantage even when it does us obvious harm, and contradicts the soundest conclusions of our reason concerning our advantage—for in any circumstances it preserves for us what is most precious and most important—that is, our personality, our individuality.†
Chpt 1.8contradicts = disagrees
- And what a faculty they have for the most contradictory sensations!†
Chpt 2.1 *contradictory = in disagreement
- That sauce was made up of contradictions and sufferings, of agonising inward analysis, and all these pangs and pin-pricks gave a certain piquancy, even a significance to my dissipation—in fact, completely answered the purpose of an appetising sauce.†
Chpt 2.2contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
Definition:
disagree
in various senses, including:
- to say something is not true -- as in "She contradicted his testimony."
- to say something else is true when both can't be true -- as in "I don't believe her. She contradicted herself as she told us what happened."
- to be in conflict with -- as in "Her assertions contradict accepted scientific principles."