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paradox
has definitions from the field of logic
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[ noun ] (logic) a self-contradiction
Examples "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point_of_view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '' , `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '' , `` a holiday work , a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high_spirits , a revel of debate , paradox , comedy and invention '' . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)For it had turned_out , by a further paradox of Cubism , that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging . Related terms |
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