paradoxes

A number of “problems” (shubuhat; the Arabic refers to all forms of obscurities, including what we call paradoxes and sophistries) are attributed to Ibn Kammuna.

Ibn Kammuna Langermann, Tzvi 2007

If he asks me why I introduce what he calls paradoxes into a philosophical problem, I answer, because all philosophical problems tend to become paradoxical.

Heretics 1905

Marcus Cato having accused Murena, Cicero being Consul, defended his cause, and in his oration pleasantly girded all the sect of the Stoic philosophers for Cato's sake, for the strange opinions they hold, which they call paradoxes: insomuch as he made all the people and judges also fall a-laughing a good.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece Various 1887

If you think through to their logical conclusion some of the events which I described as paradoxes at the beginning of this article, they reveal a reality that is not just frightening, but terrifying.

open Democracy News Analysis - Comments Geoffrey Hosking 2009

Add to this those their other determinations, and those too so contrary to common opinion that those oracles of the Stoics, which they call paradoxes, seem in comparison of these but blockish and idle -- as 'tis a lesser crime to kill a thousand men than to set a stitch on a poor man's shoe on the Sabbath day; and that a man should rather choose that the whole world with all food and raiment, as they say, should perish, than tell a lie, though never so inconsiderable.

The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502

One can joke, without him, about the vain paradoxes of "ephemeral art," this silly oxymoron -- whose "happenings" and other "installations" can, in any case, take on meaning only in a view of a definitively desolate world.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

One can joke, without him, about the vain paradoxes of "ephemeral art," this silly oxymoron -- whose "happenings" and other "installations" can, in any case, take on meaning only in a view of a definitively desolate world.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

One can joke, without him, about the vain paradoxes of "ephemeral art," this silly oxymoron -- whose "happenings" and other "installations" can, in any case, take on meaning only in a view of a definitively desolate world.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

One can joke, without him, about the vain paradoxes of "ephemeral art," this silly oxymoron -- whose "happenings" and other "installations" can, in any case, take on meaning only in a view of a definitively desolate world.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

One can joke, without him, about the vain paradoxes of "ephemeral art," this silly oxymoron -- whose "happenings" and other "installations" can, in any case, take on meaning only in a view of a definitively desolate world.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010