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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics honors three theorists whose insight resolved what had appeared to be an intractable subatomic paradox.
We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and hyperbole.
In spite of this obvious contradiction the time paradox was enthusiastically accepted.
Yet, in that familiar paradox Freud makes his own, our drives have their own ineluctable logics and rationales.
Director Bob Baker seems to have an innate understanding of the Coward paradox, that wistful vitriol.
Like the ponderer of a Zen koan, the viewer must come to terms with this paradox.
What seemed at first to be a paradox is in fact a logically sound proof about contexts.
He initiated this possibility by manipulating versions of the liar's paradox with zigzag graphs of truth and falsehood states.
Since it does not succeed in expressing a proposition, the liar sentence is neither true nor false and the paradox is avoided.
Thus, Frege himself concluded that the antinomy was due to unclarities in the symbolism Russell used to formulate the paradox.
This antinomy, perceived by reason and resolved by faith, is the standard paradox of Renaissance humanism, and we have met it in many shapes.
Godel made an analogy between optical illusions in the physical world and antinomies like Russell's paradox in the mathematical realm.
The rhetorical paradox criticizes the limitations and rigidity of argumentation.
The difference, however, between a paradox of terms and an aporia of terms lies in difference itself.
It is a paradox that Augustine would not have accepted, but it is rooted in the pragmatic imagination as a workable metaphysics.
It appears to emanate from the formulation of a rather artificial linguistic paradox.
This particular hymn 28 celebrates the paradox of the incarnation, alluding to the feasts of Easter and the Ascension.
For to do so leads inevitably to a logical contradiction via a version of Russell's paradox.
The set theory paradoxes first appeared around 1903 with the publication of Russell's paradox.
In light of antinomies like Russell's paradox, there was no certainty that the set theory was even consistent.
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Lance had always understood there were equations on file at hq, which explained the paradox.
But I first made a copy of all that relates to Prester John, himself a paradox.
We shall find this apparent paradox running all through the illuminist movement to the present day.
I've been considering the problem of the apparent paradox of a high technology in a ritual-taboo system.
A paradox this to Maimon, and roundly denied as impossible when he first heard of it.
This paradox demonstrates the irreconcilability of theoretical ethics and industrial need.
For the paradox of Hazlitt was not that he was a thinker, but a dreamer.
Galileo was the author of the hydrostatic paradox and other sketches.
The whole is a ruin, yet intact, if I may be pardoned the paradox.
It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreathe her in gems and flowers.
It has all the paradox of original sin in the service of aboriginal faith.
Benhabib begins with Rousseau because she credits him with the clear articulation of the paradox of democratic legitimation.
Often dissimilarity is affected as adding piquancy of paradox.
Here Paul contrasts human wisdom, which the Corinthians value, with the paradox of the cross and the lowliness of the apostle.
In bringing about the paradox of staticising Courbet, Manet feminised him.
Not the world,' but the 'one wise man,' is still the paradox of Socrates in his last hours.
Some might risk the odd paradox that with more animalism he would have been the nobler man.
His next concern is to explain away the air of paradox, for James was never wilfully paradoxical.
To a Frenchman, everything is a platitude that is not a paradox.
The tangle gun propelled a plastic bullet, and that plastic was a paradox.
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