Vocabulary Word
Word: paradox
Definition: something apparently contradictory in nature (that may nonetheless be true); statement that looks false but is actually correct
Definition: something apparently contradictory in nature (that may nonetheless be true); statement that looks false but is actually correct
Sentences Containing 'paradox'
It was a long time since the magistrate had heard a paradox so strong, or rather, to say the truth more exactly, it was the first time he had ever heard of it.
The bad side of human thought will always be defined by the paradox of Jean Jacques Rousseau, you remember, the mandarin who is killed five hundred leagues off by raising the tip of the finger.
Its followers are very numerous; and as men are fond of paradoxes, and of appearing to understand what surpasses the comprehensions of ordinary people, the paradox which it maintains, concerning the unproductive nature of manufacturing labour, has not, perhaps, contributed a little to increase the number of its admirers.
Most peaceful of warriors, a magnificent monarch whose ideal was quiet happiness in home life, bent to obscurity yet born to greatness, the loving father of children who died young or turned out hateful, his life was one paradox.
He adds, "not even the SUDDEN development of the snapping action would have been beneficial without the freely movable stalk, nor could the latter have been efficient without the snapping jaws, yet no minute, nearly indefinite variations could simultaneously evolve these complex co-ordinations of structure; to deny this seems to do no less than to affirm a startling paradox."
And he put it to us in this way--marking the points with a lean forefinger--as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity.
The Editor wanted that explained to him, and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the 'ingenious paradox and trick' we had witnessed that day week.
A man couldn't cover himself with dust by rolling in a paradox, could he?'
“The Master-Slave Sex Act: Mandingo and the Race/Sex Paradox” in The Persistence of Whiteness.
Géricault's work expressed a paradox: how could a hideous subject be translated into a powerful painting, how could the painter reconcile art and reality?
It was from the probabilistic assumption alone that Boltzmann's apparent success emanated, so his long dispute with Loschmidt and others over Loschmidt's paradox ultimately ended in his failure.
Production is from the Clastic zones within the Paradox salt section.
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Regional setting: North-West Paradox Basin.
Producing formation(s): Pennsylvanian clastics sections of the Paradox Formation at approximately 9,500 feet depth.
Having also made his debut in Romanian drama with the printed version of his "theatrical paradox" "Antractul" ("The Intermission"), Aderca left for France during the same year.
DeMatteis wrote an autobiographical, digest-sized miniseries "Brooklyn Dreams", published by DC's Paradox Press imprint.
However, this creates yet another paradox and causes the universe to disappear.
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular "Doctor Who" (and spin-offs including the Virgin New Adventures and Faction Paradox) and "Emmerdale".
Parkin also wrote "The Winning Side", the first in the "Time Hunter" novella series, a spin-off from Telos Publishing's line of official "Doctor Who" novellas, and "Warlords of Utopia", the third in Mad Norwegian Press's "Faction Paradox" series of novels.
Thus, she says, "True at First Light" invokes a paradox with "an aging writer for whom writing is becoming increasingly difficult in the moment of writing about the not-writing author".
In 1962, well before Nauru took over the phosphate industry and achieved independence, the United Nations offered a cautious note:
"The problem of Nauru presents a paradox.
The premise of the story creates a logical paradox similar to the unexpected hanging paradox.
At the physical limit, he proposes this developmental process of accelerating change leads inevitably to black hole level efficiencies and densities, and transcension of advanced intelligence from the physical universe, rather than interstellar expansion, thereby explaining Fermi’s paradox.
This paradox of imagery adds atmosphere to the moral dilemma facing the two lovers: loyalty to family or loyalty to love.
She discusses that the paradox of the sonnet is that the “madman” is in actuality perfectly clear about what the truth is.
In the field of political game theory, Farquharson's main contribution was his exposition of the Condorcet paradox regarding the sincerity of voters.
This definition of the French nation-state contradicts the common opinion according to which the concept of the French people would identify themselves with the concept of one particular ethnic group and thus explains the paradox to which is confronted by some attempts in identifying the "French ethnic group": the French conception of the nation is radically opposed (and was thought in opposition to) the German conception of the "Volk" ("ethnic group").
It will be the first game in the series that was not published by Lighthouse Interactive, but by Paradox Inc.
Sophism 17 is a self-referenced paradox that involves a proposition pronounced about an event that might or might not happen in the future.
In order to solve the paradox Buridan proposes three questions:
In response to the first question Buridan states that it is impossible to determine if Socrates' proposition is true or false.
In the same work Ulatowski offers a couple of humorous solutions to the paradox.
The Painlevé paradox (also called by Jean Jacques Moreau "frictional paroxysms") is a well-known example by Paul Painlevé in rigid-body dynamics that showed that rigid-body dynamics with both contact friction and Coulomb friction is inconsistent.
The paradox was mathematically resolved in the 1990s by David E. Stewart.
The Painlevé paradox has not only been solved by D. E. Stewart from the mathematical point of view (i.e. Stewart has shown the existence of solutions for the classical Painlevé example that consists of a rod sliding on a rough plane in 2-dimension), but it has been explained from a more mechanical point of view by Franck Génot and Bernard Brogliato.
The meaning of the text in "Hymne" is vague to those not aware of Baudelaire's ongoing theme of paradox (as the meaning is quite apparent in his other works): the spirituality of what is sensual and the sensuality of what is sanctified.
His more recent musical projects include Paradox, the band, with two releases on indie labels; "Time" and "Limited Edition".
Constructors have dubbed this type of puzzle a "Schrödinger puzzle" after the famous paradox of Schrödinger's cat, which was both alive and dead at the same time.
She is a paradox: equal parts exotic slave girl and Asian princess, her most powerful weapon being her sexuality.
There are three different paradoxes called Bertrand's paradox or the Bertrand paradox:
However, German astronomer Heinrich Olbers asserted that if this were true, then the entire night sky would be filled with light and bright as day; this is known as Olbers' paradox.
However, the weakening is not sufficient to actually explain Olbers' paradox.
Many cosmologists think that the fact that the Universe is finite in time, that is that the Universe has not been around forever, is the solution to the paradox.
In its review of her book, "Kirkus Reviews" pointed out a paradox regarding one of Grossman's proposed solutions to issues of encroachment upon Internet freedoms.
Moreover, formula_151 can be proved not to exist in NFU (see the resolution of Cantor's paradox in New Foundations.)
This resembles the resolution of the Burali–Forti paradox discussed above and in the New Foundations article, and is in fact the local resolution of Mirimanoff's paradox of the set of all well-founded sets.
In future studies, the different organizational ambidexterity configurations can be compared to find a better solution for dealing with the exploitation and exploration paradox.
From the structural ambidexterity’s view, organizations can solve the paradox by temporarily cycling through periods of exploitation and periods of exploration.
Zapffe views the human condition as tragically overdeveloped, calling it "a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature."
It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
Later, they were revealed to be time-paradox duplicates every bit as legitimate as their older counterparts.