0 a situation or statement that seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics:
1 a statement or situation that may be true but seems impossible or difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics:
For each of these three secular philosophical positions, the project of a history of science revealed a basic paradox.
The second reason, only seemingly a paradox, is the power of creative error.
In doing so, he discovers the inherent paradox of his situation.
Form is easy, meaning is hard : resolving a paradox in early child language.
This paradox was resolved in various ways by different theorists: polygenism and theories of races as biologically distinct subspecies arose to maintain hegemonic hierarchies.
The paradox was of course that a duel arose from speaking the truth.
A paradox of personal data is that both keeping the information secret and exchanging the information can be done under the banner of security.
The paradox, then, is that a certain unity can only be understood conceptually after this unity is disrupted and lost.