All 3 Uses of "contradict" in "The Garden of Forking Paths"

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contradict
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The Garden of Forking Paths
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The book is an indeterminate heap of contradictory drafts.†
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contradictory = in disagreement
These conjectures diverted me; but none seemed to correspond, not even remotely, to the contradictory chapters of Ts'ui Pên.†
Here, then, is the explanation of the novel's contradictions.†

contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing

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(1) (contradict)
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."
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)