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\tacindex{contradiction}
This tactic applies to any goal. The {\tt contradiction} tactic
-attempts to find in the current context (after all {\tt intros}) one
-hypothesis that is equivalent to {\tt False}. It permits to prune
-irrelevant cases. This tactic is a macro for the tactics sequence
-{\tt intros; elimtype False; assumption}.
+attempts to find in the current context (after all {\tt intros}) an
+hypothesis that is equivalent to an empty inductive type (e.g. {\tt
+ False}), to the negation of a singleton inductive type (e.g. {\tt
+ True} or {\tt x=x}), or two contradictory hypotheses.
\begin{ErrMsgs}
\item \errindex{No such assumption}