This would imply a contradiction in terms.

Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind.

Therefore it seems to imply a contradiction to speak of "evidence of things that appear not": and so faith is unfittingly defined.

Like competition, monopoly implies a contradiction in its name and its definition.

That, which exists necessarily, is that, whose non-existence implies a contradiction.

There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction.

Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction.

Yet, surely, if it implies a contradiction to say so, that contradiction could be shown.

Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction.

For whatever implies a contradiction cannot be a word, because no intellect can possibly conceive such a thing.

The statement itself implies a contradiction, for it tells us that the same influences prevent and produce change in the condition of the Animal Kingdom.