Is self-contradiction still the prima facie sign of a faulty argument?

Is self-contradiction still the prima facie sign of a faulty argument?

Is self-contradiction still the prima facie sign of a faulty argument? How do we tell an apparent contradiction from a real contradiction if the argument is in words? (Most of us don't know how to translate arguments in words into symbolic logic.)

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