paradox
Các nghĩa
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nghịch lý
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
"This sentence is false" is a paradox.
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kết luận ngược đời
A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
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mệnh đề tưởng mâu thuẫn nhưng đúng
A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.
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thực thể chứa đựng mâu thuẫn tồn tại lâu dài
A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
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người/vật có thuộc tính trái ngược
A person or thing having contradictory properties.
He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.
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câu hỏi hóc búa dẫn đến chân lý
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old?
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cách dùng nghịch lý trong lời nói/văn viết
The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language.
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trạng thái buộc phải tự mâu thuẫn
A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox.
Dạng khác
- paradoxes plural