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Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS:
    • IPA: [ˈpær.ə.ˌdɑːks]
  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈpaɹədɒks/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈpɛɹədɑks/
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /ˈpæɹədɑks/

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Substantiivit

  1. A self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
  2. A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
  3. A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
  4. A person or thing having contradictory properties.
  5. An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
  6. (obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
  7. (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
  8. (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
  9. (uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.

Esimerkit

  • "This sentence is false" is a paradox.
  • According to one version of an ancient paradox, an Athenian is supposed to say "I am a liar." It is then argued that if the statement is true, then he is telling the truth, and is therefore not a liar [...]
  • It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
  • The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully.
  • Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.
  • How quaint the ways of Paradox! / At common sense she gaily mocks! / Though counting in the usual way years twenty-one I've been alive, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / I am a little boy of five!
  • He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.
  • You are a paradox of bitch and angel.
  • And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old?
  • Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the / time gives it proof.
  • they contended to make that Maxim, that there is no faith to be held with Infidels, a meere and absurd Paradox [...].
  • The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language.
  • Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox.
  • Defiance-based paradox is employed so that the family will actively oppose and deliberately sabotage the prescription.

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