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Mandell Creighton once suggested that all true knowledge contradicts common sense.

Psychologist Carl Rogers suggested that, in general, people act in ways that supports rather than contradicts their own beliefs about themselves.

The discovery that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis is actually good for one's health contradicts everything I heard about alcohol while I was growing up.

Recent data contradicts a popular notion that our bodies can become accustomed to functioning on sustained periods of little sleep without any consequences.

The evidence collected in the investigation into the death of President John F.

Kennedy quite clearly contradicts the claim that he was assassinated by one man acting alone.

But I reply, if the superficies betwixt these two enlightened parts remaine darke because of its opacity, then would it alwaies be darke, and the Sunne could not make it partake of light more then it could of perspicuity: But this contradicts all experience as you may see in Galilæus, who affirmes that when the Sunne comes nearer to his opposition, then that which is betwixt them, both is enlightned as well as either.

’Tis the generall consent of Philosophers, that the reflection of the Sunne-beames from the earth doth not reach much above halfe a mile high, where they terminate the first region, so that to affirme they might ascend to the moone, were to say, there were but one region of aier, which contradicts the proved and received opinion.

Action at a distance contradicts all experience, is philosophically incredible, and is repudiated by every one who once perceives that energy has two factors-substance and motion.

My testimony contradicts formally and explicitly the conclusions of the Cambridge investigators.

This fact is to be noted, for it contradicts the current belief that the subject obeys the will of the magnetiser: but what follows reveals a phenomenon of vastly different interest.

The fact which I am going to relate contradicts the opinion emitted by some spiritists, that spirits borrow the force which is indispensable to produce these displacements from the mediums or assistants.

This contradicts the researches of Vitali and also those of Binet.

Yet Eve and the serpent contradicts.

The expression contradicts itself; that which can be common is always of small value.

How are we supposed to read a story containing a one-line disclaimer that contradicts its entire narrative thrust?

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