Contradiction definition

Contradiction means that such a scenario contradicts the conclusion that the configuration of conditions is fully sufficient for the outcome: although there is a great deal of evidence in favour of it, sufficiency cannot be deterministically confirmed. But ‘contradiction’ also means that there are still contradictions in the data which have to be solved in some way. In other words, the conditions of which the configurations (and thus truth table rows) are composed do not differentiate the empirical cases well enough to account for differences in the outcomes, such as different levels of growth. This is a clear indication that conditions which would have been useful, if not indispensable, for the explanation have been omitted. Therefore, one of the earliest recommendations was to search for additional explanatory factors (Ragin 1987: 113 – “omitted causal variables” are even literally mentioned here!).

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Contradiction. , supplied him with a means of theorising the propensity of any given socio-economic order towards revolutionary change—but consequently, the development of a generalisable symptomatology.

Contradiction. The SOP passage is not compliant with the guideline. An example of this compliance evaluation can be found in Table 1. Table 1. Example of compliance evaluation using the three NLI labels. Recommendation SOP passage NLI label A COVID-19 patient should wear a mask The patient wears a mask Entailment A COVID-19 patient should wear a mask The patient does not wear a mask Contradiction A COVID-19 patient should wear a mask The patient wears gloves Neutral Because SOPalign has been developed for healthcare in the Netherlands, we could not simply rely on a high-quality English NLI model, and had to localize our approach at this step in the pipeline by training a Dutch NLI model. To train our Dutch NLI model, we experimented with fine-tuning three dif- ferent pre-trained large language models for Dutch: RobBERT [2], BERTje [3] and ▇▇▇▇▇ [4]. We experimented with two different datasets for fine-tuning. First, we used the SICK-NL dataset [5], which is a Dutch semi-automatically translated version of the original SICK dataset [6]. The sentences in this dataset are generated from descriptions of images. These sentences are short and not of the clinical domain, which renders these quite different from the sentences we encounter in the SOPs and guidelines. Perhaps not so surprisingly then, the model did not generalise to the sentences in our application domain. Therefore, we translated the medNLI dataset [7] to Dutch using machine translation. This dataset was specifically created for medical texts and thus, it was a much better fit. For translation, we experimented with both Google Translate and DeepL. Table 2 shows the results on the medNLI test set for the different settings where the best model was selected after training for 20 epochs. The combination of DeepL and BERTje yields the best results for the Dutch language. The performance loss caused by the translation and the use of Dutch pre-trained models seems limited, when compared to their English counterparts.

Examples of Contradiction in a sentence

• Contradiction of a provision of the Agreement with applicable law shall not influence the validity of the rest of the provisions of the Agreement.

• Contradiction is thus inherent within a concept – the process of thought; it is also inherent in the object.

• A project focused on rethinking the concept of Contradiction and Convergence (the current international strategy for bringing down glob- al emissions of greenhouse gases to a safe level).

• Conflict of Interests Contradiction between property and other interests of Organization, its founders (members), beneficiary owners, senior managers, members of its bodies, structural units, other employees and property and other interests of Organization’s USERs. Liquidity Ability of Organization to ensure increase of assets and meet obligations as date of their performance approach without incurring unacceptable losses.

• Contradiction of the Renter's conduct (guilty actions) consists in violation of the obligations provided for in this Rental Agreement, violation of the rules of the road leading to an accident, and the terms of the insurance contract TK.

More Definitions of Contradiction

Contradiction. ’ means ‘‘the act or instance of