paradox 的定义
- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- a self-contradictory and false proposition.
- any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.
- an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.
paradox 近义词
contradiction, puzzle
更多paradox例句
- The only paradox is that till 35 years ago, this view of the indigenous plant and its psychotropic by-products was not viewed as a crime.
- So there’s another paradox there, which is that language maintains as well as creates.
- The modern resolution to the paradox contains some subtleties, but it does indeed mostly come down to the fact that we do not live in an endless and unchanging universe.
- You might think you could just posit some extra axiom, use it to prove G, and resolve the paradox.
- My mother taught me that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and this paradox has been useful while dealing with both high school and workplace politics.
- But I feel like films are uniquely suited towards addressing paradox, recursiveness, and worlds-within-worlds.
- To appreciate the Palmer paradox, it's important to understand that Palmer's childhood and young adulthood were dichotomous.
- “Maybe we need a new category other than theism, atheism or agnosticism that takes paradox and unknowing into account,” he writes.
- But Washington was a prisoner to its paradox of an Iraq policy.
- As a result of this paradox, the Iraq policy process ground to a halt at the very moment that ISIS was on the rise.
- It offers, to those who see it aright, the most perplexing industrial paradox ever presented in the history of mankind.
- But in reality this paradox of value is the most fundamental proposition in economic science.
- It was the spiritual way, whose method and secret lie in that subtle paradox: Yield to conquer.
- But it was a strange paradox, that precisely the depth of his love for her made him willing to think of losing her.
- But this very paradox leads to the real principle of generalization concerning the properties of numbers.