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paradox

/par-uh-doks/US // ˈpær əˌdɒks //UK // (ˈpærəˌdɒks) //

悖论,矛盾,悖谬,佯谬

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.