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Could you explain this or better still give an example.

2006-08-19 15:36:19 · 3 answers · asked by jo 2 in Education & Reference Other - Education

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The term “paradoxically speaking” is a spoken statement that involves an assertion that is essentially self-contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises.

It is a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must sometimes be cruel in order to be kind. Another form of paradox is a statement that truly is contradictory and yet follows logically from other statements that do not seem open to objection. If someone says, “I am lying,” for example, and we assume that his statement is true, it must be false. The paradox is that the statement “I am lying” is false if it is true.

Other examples: Paradoxically speaking, the attempt to understand another often has the opposite effect of creating mutual hostility.

Paradoxically speaking, violence perpetrated by man against man, as a phenomenon, has always been an inseparable part of human growth.

Paradoxically speaking, for him the ideal statue presents a person so realistically that he/she seems to speak.

Paradoxically speaking, light is the dark matter.

Paradoxically speaking, the labor union in the company is the only remaining hope.

Hope that helped.

2006-08-20 01:34:34 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 0 0

Paradoxically

2016-10-06 23:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

I know the answer but if I teach people the answer I have to kill them

2006-08-19 15:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by rogue chedder 4 · 0 0

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