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paradox
A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome

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.

A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth
A self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. [[#translations-self-contradictory statement|transl.]] [[#usage-self-contradictory statement|usage]]

This sentence is false is a paradox.

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
You describe a situation as a paradox when it involves two or more facts or qualities which seem to contradict each other. The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems
The appearance of two qualities of Being that appear to be opposite, yet are co-existing and non-separate (i e , life/death Absolute/Relative, fullness/emptiness, etc)
a conclusion based on undefined functions
A statement that appears to be contradictory but is not, such as "increases in product quality often result in a decline of the cost of producing the goods "
A statement that leads to an infinite and instant contradiction
a statement which at first appears to contradict itself but is in fact true [top]
{i} statement that seems to be self-contradictory; false statement, untrue statement; person who has contradictory qualities according to outward appearance; thing that unites contradictory qualities
An assertion that seems self-contradictory or opposed to common sense
a figure of speech in which an apparent contradiction contains a truth
/ an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it *What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young George Bernard Shaw (A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples, Ross Scaife)
a self-contradictory phrase or sentence, such as "the ascending rain" or Alexander Pope's description of man, "Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all " Don Marquis's "quote buns by great men quote" (archys life of mehitabel [London: Faber and Faber, 1934]: 103-04), describes a drunk trying to go up a down-escalator as "falling upwards / through the night" (the poem also parodies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "St Augustine")
A statement that appears to contradict itself, for example, suggesting a solution which is actually impossible (cfTortoise and Hare Race)
- a statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense
An apparently true statement that appears to lead to a contradiction or to circumstances that defy intuition
A paradox is a statement in which it seems that if one part of it is true, the other part of it cannot be true. Although I'm so successful I'm really rather a failure. That's a paradox, isn't it?. Apparently self-contradictory statement whose underlying meaning is revealed only by careful scrutiny. Its purpose is to arrest attention and provoke fresh thought, as in the statement "Less is more." In poetry, paradox functions as a device encompassing the tensions of error and truth simultaneously, not necessarily by startling juxtapositions but by subtle and continuous qualifications of the ordinary meanings of words. When a paradox is compressed into two words, as in "living death," it is called an oxymoron. liar paradox Olbers's paradox paradoxes of Zeno
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