All 3 Uses of
paradox
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Dagny, learn to understand the nature of your own power and you'll understand the paradox you now see around you.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- He sat watching her movements with an open grin, as if the sight of her laying out cutlery on a kitchen table were the spectacle of some special paradox.†
Chpt 3.2
- But even to go back took an act of intelligence-she thought, feeling the paradox of her own position, as she looked at the lethargy of the faces around her.†
Chpt 3.5
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."