Both Uses of
paradox
in
Anna Karenina
- "You have changed in many respects since your marriage, and for the better," said Sergey Ivanovitch, smiling to Kitty, and obviously little interested in the conversation, "but you have remained true to your passion for defending the most paradoxical theories."†
Part 6paradoxical = seeming impossible (at least on first impression) because things that seem true contradict each other
- No, excuse me, that's a paradox.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(paradox) a situation or statement that seems to contradict itself but may still be true
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, paradox may refer to a statement that contradicts itself -- such as "I always lie."