Paradox
['pærədɒks] or ['pærədɑks]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (logic) a statement that contradicts itself; '`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false'.
尤金校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
編輯:奥马尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Absurdity (as appears at first sight, yet not so in fact), seeming contradiction.
尤金校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Contradiction, enigma, mystery, absurdity, ambiguity
ANT:Precept, proposition, axiom, truism, postulate
手打:胡里奥
解釋/意思:
n. that which is contrary to received opinion or that which is apparently absurd but really true.—n. Par′adoxer.—adjs. Paradox′ic -al of the nature of a paradox: inclined to paradoxes said of persons.—adv. Paradox′ically.—ns. Paradox′icalness; Paradox′ides a genus of trilobites; Par′adoxist; Par′adoxy the quality of being paradoxical.—Hydrostatic paradox (see Hydrostatics).
編輯:曼纽尔
例句/造句/用法:
- If you quote David Hume at them, and say that reason itself is an irrational impulse they think you are indulging in a silly paradox. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For the ideal must always be a paradox when compared with the ordinary conditions of human life. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The second paradox leads up to some curious and interesting questions--How far can the mind control the body? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The silence of midnight, to speak truly, though apparently a paradox, rung in my ears. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- No sooner did Roosevelt take the stump than the paradox loomed up before him. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A noteworthy paradox often accompanies discussions of morals. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Do you scout the paradox? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A paradox there is here, but a paradox of language, and not of fact. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She possessed that (though such an assertion may appear a paradox) which belongs to few, a capacity of happiness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Without the slightest paradox one may say that the classicalist is most foreign to the classics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- To this efficiency, great as the paradox may seem, Peace holds what quiet fields it has, or will have, until most men learn to love peace and hate the arts of war. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If it is a paradox to ask for a human politics before we understand humanity or politics, it is what Mr. Chesterton describes as one of those paradoxes that sit beside the wells of truth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The idea of the perfect State is full of paradox when judged of according to the ordinary notions of mankind. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- His doctrine of the social myth has seemed to many commentators one of those silly paradoxes that only a revolutionary syndicalist and Frenchman could have put forward. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- From this dependence of the act of thinking upon a sense of sharing in the consequences of what goes on, flows one of the chief paradoxes of thought. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- My unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of comfort. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement--that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it--that the religion of humanity should have had no faith in human beings. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If it is a paradox to ask for a human politics before we understand humanity or politics, it is what Mr. Chesterton describes as one of those paradoxes that sit beside the wells of truth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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