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Paradox

paradox

/ˈparəˌdäks/
Adjective: paradoxical.
 
  
ETYMOLOGY (ORIGIN)
 
From the Greek, "incredible, contrary to opinion or expectation"

 
DEFINITION:

 

 A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. An opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion, but may be factual.

 

 

A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that...

 

A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

 

 

EXAMPLES:

 

  • He knew of three ways to resolve this paradox.
  • Paradox at the heart of things.
  • Pardon the seeming paradox; i mean what i say.
  • Explain how the supervaluationist uses this notion to respond to the sorites paradox.
  • Paradox of individual freedom in an era of individual helplessness.
  • We also will embody this paradoxfor as long as we sojourn here on earth.
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    Paradox in philosophy:

    A taste for paradox is central to the philosophies of Laozi, Heraclitus, Meister Eckhart, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and G.K. Chesterton, among many others. Sren Kierkegaard, for example, writes, in the Philosophical Fragments, that

    But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. But the ultimate potentiation of every passion is always to will its own downfall, and so it is also the ultimate passion of the understanding to will the collision, although in one way or another the collision must become its downfall. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

     
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