paradox

Significado (Inglés)

1. (countable, uncountable) An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
2. (countable, uncountable) A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
3. (countable, uncountable) A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
4. (countable, uncountable) A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
5. (countable, uncountable) A person or thing having contradictory properties.
6. (countable, uncountable) An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
8. (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
9. (uncountable) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
10. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Conceptos

paradoja

paradojo

Sinónimos

antinomy

contradiction

enigma

false statement

puzzle

riddle

self-contradiction

anomaly

strange talk

Traducciones

paradoxe

paradosso

Paradoxon

paradox

paradoxo

Paradox

paradoks

παραδοξολογία

antinomie

παράδοξο

paradoxa

tegenspraak

αντίφαση

Paradoxie

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpæɹ.əˌdɒks/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle French paradoxe, from Latin paradoxum, from Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “unexpected, strange”).

Oraciones

The paradox was also a motivation of the development of predicative mathematics .

La paradoja también fue una motivación del desarrollo de matemáticas predicativas.