Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being paradoxical.
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- noun The quality of being
paradoxical .
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Examples
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But if the Moore-paradoxicality of a set of moral attitudes is supposed to justify counting moral judgemets that express them as inconsistent, we should regard these sentences as inconsistent.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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A rabbi - whom I immediately felt sorry for - was 'awash in paradoxicality', which apparently proved that 'cognitive dissonance is good for intractable conflicts'.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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A rabbi - whom I immediately felt sorry for - was 'awash in paradoxicality', which apparently proved that 'cognitive dissonance is good for intractable conflicts'.
In the tradition of Orwell, Robert Fisk skewers the Egghead Mystifiers 2005
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The very paradoxicality of the situation seemed to give me a clue.
Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove
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Thirty participants had a "complete mystical experience," which consisted of scoring above 60 percent on the dimensions of unity, transcendence of time and space, ineffability and paradoxicality, sacredness, noetic quality, and positive mood I'm not sure I even know what all that means, but I'm sure I would if I took such a high dosage of psilocybin!
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Scott Barry Kaufman 2011
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The penchant to extremes, paradoxicality, and irrationalism have become stereotypical characteristics of "Russianness".
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Apparently this is what constitutes the paradoxicality of the Trinity.
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Apparently this is what constitutes the paradoxicality of the Trinity.
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But that’s people who haven’t read about paradoxicality and the fact that this is a multilevel, post-quantum universe that we live in.
Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND 2008
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But that’s people who haven’t read about paradoxicality and the fact that this is a multilevel, post-quantum universe that we live in.
Printing: Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND 2008
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