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.
How did marijuana become illegal in India?|Manavi Kapur|September 11, 2020|Quartz
So there’s another paradox there, which is that language maintains as well as creates.
Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Kevin Berger|September 9, 2020|Nautilus
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.
The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Caleb Scharf|August 19, 2020|Nautilus
You might think you could just posit some extra axiom, use it to prove G, and resolve the paradox.
How Gödel’s Proof Works|Natalie Wolchover|July 14, 2020|Quanta Magazine
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.
“Paradox” vs. “Oxymoron”: How To Tell The (Seemingly Similar) Difference|Lauren Levy|July 7, 2020|Everything After Z
To appreciate the Palmer paradox, it's important to understand that Palmer's childhood and young adulthood were dichotomous.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Washington was a prisoner to its paradox of an Iraq policy.
Why the White House Ignored All Those Warnings About ISIS|Eli Lake|July 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As a result of this paradox, the Iraq policy process ground to a halt at the very moment that ISIS was on the rise.
Why the White House Ignored All Those Warnings About ISIS|Eli Lake|July 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The result has been a bit of a paradox: a majority that is decidedly radical in its aims but a bit gradualist in its methods.
Only Eight Years of President Hillary Can Take the Supreme Court Away From Conservatives|Michael Tomasky|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Read more from The Daily Beast on Flight 370: The Flight 370 Paradox: How Do You Mourn a Missing Person?
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 May Have Been Flown Into the World's Biggest Void|Clive Irving|March 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wordsworth, until he began the Ecclesiastical Sonnets, was betrayed by his "penchant for paradox."
The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920|Various
He permitted himself neither pose nor paradox—he was in deadly earnest.
The Socialist|Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
This is not a paradox, but a common-sense question, as the following suggestive little incident will show.
A Librarian's Open Shelf|Arthur E. Bostwick
If we are to subscribe to his curious philosophy, to be discussed later, we must believe that there is no paradox in this.
Arthur Machen|Vincent Starrett
There is, moreover, a paradox in the idea of vitiated bodies reforming themselves.
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II|Thomas Paine
British Dictionary definitions for paradox
paradox
/ (ˈpærəˌdɒks) /
noun
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement that is or may be truereligious truths are often expressed in paradox
a self-contradictory proposition, such as I always tell lies
a person or thing exhibiting apparently contradictory characteristics
an opinion that conflicts with common belief
Derived forms of paradox
paradoxical, adjectiveparadoxically, adverb
Word Origin for paradox
C16: from Late Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxos opposed to existing notions, from para-1 + doxa opinion
“Paradox” vs. “Oxymoron”: How To Tell The (Seemingly Similar) DifferenceLife is full of contradictions, so your only choice is to learn the difference between a paradox or an oxymoron so you know which one you're dealing with.
A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must sometimes be cruel in order to be kind. Another form of paradox is a statement that truly is contradictory and yet follows logically from other statements that do not seem open to objection. If someone says, “I am lying,” for example, and we assume that his statement is true, it must be false. The paradox is that the statement “I am lying” is false if it is true.