paradox
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Definitions ofparadox
- An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
Example: ""This sentence is false" is a paradox."
- A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
Example: "It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty."
- A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
Example: "Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox."
- A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
- A person or thing having contradictory properties.
Example: "He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party."
- An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
- A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
- The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
- A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
- 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.
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