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[ adjective ] unable to be both true at the same time
Synonyms Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Therefore , the only conceivable alternatives are those represented , on_the_one_hand , by the two at_least apparently self-consistent but mutually_exclusive positions of Buri and Barth and , on_the_other_hand , by the third but really pseudo position ( analogous to a round square ) of Bultmann . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)It was the collage that made the terms of_this dilemma clear : the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become , for_the_first_time , mutually_exclusive alternatives . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
Synonyms Examples "`either' and `or' in `either this or that' Related terms |
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