The difference between Contingency and Contradiction

When used as nouns, contingency means the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance, whereas contradiction means the act of contradicting.

check bellow for the other definitions of Contingency and Contradiction

  1. Contingency as a noun (uncountable):

    The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.

  2. Contingency as a noun (countable):

    A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.

  3. Contingency as a noun (countable):

    An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.

  4. Contingency as a noun (logic, countable):

    A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.

  1. Contradiction as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    The act of contradicting.

    Examples:

    "His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting."

  2. Contradiction as a noun (countable):

    A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that makes a claim that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.

    Examples:

    "There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion, and at the same time she should not have that right."

    "There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single."

  3. Contradiction as a noun (countable):

    A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.

    Examples:

    "Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism."

  4. Contradiction as a noun (logic, countable):

    A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.

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