paradoxist

For the paradoxist any - way, ignorantia had to be docta to count: for that reason, the literary paradox can claim its place in an encyclopedia of philosophy.

LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968

In his Paradossi (1542), the first vernacular collection of paradoxes in Europe, Ortensio Lando argued for various disagreeable and officially low con - ditions, such as imprisonment, exile, debt, cuckoldry, and bastardy; all these are made to seem, however the paradoxist must reach for his instances, in some context or other preferable to their dialectical opposites:

LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968

Maximus was a paradoxist and it is doubtful that his conclusions were to be taken seri - ously.

PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

The tightrope-walking paradoxist took as his task, quite literally, equivocation, as part of his loyalty to indeter - minacy and to inclusiveness.

LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968

The professional paradoxist went about with holes in his boots.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

A paradoxist in America (of Louisville, Kentucky) who had invented a theory of the weather, in which the planets, by their influence on the sun, were supposed to produce all weather-changes, the nearer planets being the most effective, found his theory wanted Vulcan very much.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

A half-understood explanation, or a carelessly worded account of some natural phenomenon, leads the paradoxist, whose nature is compounded of conceit and simplicity, to originate a theory of his own on the subject.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

In my correspondence with Mr. Reddie I recognised the real source of the amazing self-complacency displayed by the true paradoxist.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

It has often seemed to me that a large part of the mischief -- for let it be remembered that the published errors of the paradoxist are indicative of much unpublished misapprehension -- arises from the undeserved contempt with which our books of astronomy too often treat the labours of

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

It may have been that a clear reasoner like De Morgan could hardly (despite his wide experience) appreciate the confusion of mind which is the normal characteristic of the paradoxist.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862