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Substantiivit
- A self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
- A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
- A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
- A person or thing having contradictory properties.
- An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
- (obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
- (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
- (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
- (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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