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paradox English

Meaning paradox meaning

What does paradox mean?

paradox

(logic) a statement that contradicts itself 'I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false

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Simple sentences

This has been a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.
The paradox of sport is that it bonds as it divides.

Movie subtitles

Now, here comes the paradox.
Now, this is a paradox.
That's a bit of a paradox, isn't it?
A paradox can be true.
That's an interesting paradox.
The eternal paradox.
I learned the way of the West, so I've become a little of both. a paradox. and it is hard to reconcile the extremes.
This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.
An absurd paradox.
A sad paradox.
On the contrary, people who are not so much sceptical. as fond of paradoxes are amusing, and the essence of paradox is. to look for the opposite in the face of what seems a self-evident idea.
This living paradox!
That's the paradox.
Well, it would create a dimensional paradox.
The paradox is that they began as socialists, and now they're big capitalists.
Some very good men go so far as to call it a philosophical and semantic paradox. And hence, permanently an impossibility.
And this is the most poisonous paradox of our time.
I learned the way of the West, so I've become a little of both, a paradox.
The essence of paradox is to look for the opposite in the face of the obvious.
Yes, such a disturbing paradox.
Yet I've since discovered that my uncle is a prime example of our frustrating paradox.
True, that's somewhat of a paradox.
I'm talking about the classic paradox of time.
A paradox, when you consider what they've been doing.
As I fell asleep that night in the empty house. I formed an opinion on theft and justice which. is rather a paradox and yet, 40 years of experience. haven't altered it.
I perfectly understand that you don't care at all about it, but on the other hand, your unexpected arguments, which you sometimes push to the point of paradox, could eventually have rather unpleasant consequences. What consequences?
A real paradox, isn't it?
It is a strange paradox, that the real art of cinema in Estonia was born in the 60s.
And he was surprised. A paradox.
What meaning could this paradox have regarding our work?
Zeno's Paradox.
The two brothers experience the paradox of time dilation.
I'd find such an unusual paradox of tremendous appeal terribly stimulating if I were a sleuth.
You'll explain that paradox, I know.

News and current affairs

The paradox is that, by maintaining a political distance and thus limiting Turkey's options, Europe may end up reinforcing Turkey's status as a military outpost of the US.
The paradox of American power is that the world's only military superpower cannot protect its citizens by acting alone.
The result is a dangerous paradox.
A recent survey in the US by the organization Common Sense Media reveals a paradox, but one that is perfectly understandable.
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.
So long as the markets were rising, the paradox of vigorous capitalist development overseen by the world's largest and strongest Communist party confounded only academics and old-school Marxists.
A paradox, indeed, haunts Venezuela: if people abroad have such a poor view of our country, then perhaps we are going to the dogs, regardless of what we see around us.
The paradox here is that parties have become more tribal having lost their ideological distinctiveness.
There is an interesting paradox here.
This paradox demands a solution: muddling through will not attract investment or induce appropriate scale in new export projects.
In short, the eurozone's periphery is now subject to the paradox of thrift: increasing savings too much, too fast leads to renewed recession and makes debts even more unsustainable.
And that paradox is now affecting even the core.
The three largest member states - Britain, France, and Germany - have tended to respond to this paradox by pursuing closer trilateral cooperation.
Why this paradox?
Still, a central paradox plagues the MDGs.
NEW HAVEN - In the late 1980s, there was intense debate about the so-called productivity paradox - when massive investments in information technology (IT) were not delivering measureable productivity improvements.
That paradox is now back, posing a problem for both the United States and China - one that may well come up in their annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Concern about the paradox all but vanished.
Therein lies the latest paradox.
But is there really a paradox?
America today presents the paradox of a rich country falling apart because of the collapse of its core values.
The paradox here is that the crisis presents a unique opportunity for the United States and China to strike a deal that would lay the groundwork for a global climate agreement.
Thus there is a certain paradox in Britain's acting as it does.
There are two aspects to this paradox.
The paradox of this jolting election is that it will actually stabilize politics in Venezuela, at least for now, and will favor a renewal of democracy.
The Colombian paradox is that violence and the drug economy coexisted with one of the oldest and most genuinely constitutional traditions in Latin America.
Yet a long succession of presidents failed to solve the paradox.
Another major objective is to resolve yet another paradox.

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