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Expressing or involving claims that oppose one another and cannot both hold in the same sense.

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contradictory

The two notices gave contradictory instructions about whether advance registration was required.
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In a practice debate about a fictional reading room, two statements were contradictory: one said every desk had a lamp, while the other said that one desk had no lamp at that same time.
From Testing an Argument.
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