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Full Idea
With contradiction there can be no intermediate state, whereas with contrariety there can be.
Gist of Idea
There is no middle ground in contradiction, but there is in contrariety
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1055b02)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.298
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| 1698 | Both sides of contraries need not exist (as health without sickness, white without black) [Aristotle] |
| 24052 | From one thing alone we can infer its contrary [Aristotle] |
| 4333 | Contraries are by definition as far distant as possible from one another [Aristotle] |
| 1708 | In "Callias is just/not just/unjust", which of these are contraries? [Aristotle] |
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