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what does contradiction mean
what is the contradiction of innocence and experience(involves william blake's song of innocence and experience)Www@QuestionHome@Com


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contradiction is having a incompatibility between two or more concepts or ideas!.
When you are innocent you are in the state of unknowing or lacking experience!. While, when you have experience, you have the knowledge of a certain concept!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think it means the thing we all are involved in!. Wishing something but do not turn it into reality!. And this happens because, we consciously want/wish something, but unconsciously we want/wish somehow the opposite!. I!.e!.: I want to go and live alone (consciously)!. But (unconsciously) I worry about money, about feeling lonely (so I stay and live with my "family") !.!.!.!. Contradiction which makes me have two -somehow- opposite wishes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

In Aristitlean Logic, contradiction is when both quality and quanity are different, or opposed to one annother!. It is the relation of the opposits!.

I do not know about the song!. But it is a fact that innocence often gets contradicted through experiences!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com