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▸ noun: A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
▸ noun: A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
▸ noun: A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
▸ noun: A person or thing having contradictory properties.
▸ noun: An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
▸ noun: (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable, psychotherapy) 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.
Similar:
contradiction,
self-contradiction,
contradictory,
contrary,
liar paradox,
contradictionism,
dialetheia,
paradoxy,
liar's paradox,
contradiction in terms,
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logical paradox,
antinomy,
self-reference,
russell's paradox,
grelling's paradox,
ship of Theseus,
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