This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.

The contrariety of views and designs, the concertative, dilatory conferences of a numerous assembly ( rent and divided as such assemblies are ever found to be ) , render it expedient that the prerogative of commencing war be confided to the advised discretion of the executory power.

This book puts forward a clearer understanding of Diderot's perplexities by taking into account the dynamics of his thought processes, especially the mode, peculiar to him, of thinking via contrarieties.

At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.

Contrariety

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