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paradox

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This reminds me of the health care cost paradox that Atul Gawande wrote about in 2011.

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Quick take

(logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of paradox gathered in one view.

noun

(logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paradox.

noun

(logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

Example sentences

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This reminds me of the health care cost paradox that Atul Gawande wrote about in 2011.

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The paradox is that even though every new fiverr and mturk create more jobs, they lower the value of work.

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So there's a permission paradox: you can't do it until you've proven you can, and you can't prove you can do it until you've done it.

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The great paradox of this article is that the ultimate way to achieve things is to evolve to a point where you stop reading these kinds of posts.

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I really did not expect this much resistance on HN to a fairly classical solution to the fermi paradox.

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This is basically the paradox of US healthcare innovation.

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The wrong model can make certain tasks impossible -- for example, thinking that numbers must be 1-dimensional makes complex numbers a paradox.

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Sooner or later, I think all of us who are entrepreneurially inclined encounter the paradox of outsized ambition.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use paradox in a sentence?

This reminds me of the health care cost paradox that Atul Gawande wrote about in 2011.

What does paradox mean?

(logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

What part of speech is paradox?

paradox is commonly used as noun.