Mr. Clinton made at times a seemingly paradoxical argument for such policies.
It was a paradoxical contention.
Opponents of the law were left to make the paradoxical argument that the nation has come to accept that gay men and lesbians deserve the same right to marriage as heterosexuals while maintaining that they are a politically oppressed class deserving the protection of the courts.
Although Cantor might have found that paradox as early as 1883, immediately after introducing the transfinite ordinals (for arguments in favour of this idea see Purkert & Ilgauds 1987 and Tait 2000), the evidence indicates clearly that it was not until 1896/97 that he found this paradoxical argument and realized its implications.
The sorites paradox is the name given to a class of paradoxical arguments, also known as little-by-little arguments, which arise as a result of the indeterminacy surrounding limits of application of the predicates involved.
Economists are fond of paradoxical arguments, like the rebound effect or the claim that safer cars cause more deaths.
Shaw's Major Barbara features the locus classicus of the subject in the philosophical discourse of the suave, multi-millionaire, arms-manufacturer Andrew Undershaft who justifies his profession and confuses his critics with paradoxical arguments and cynicism posing as enlightenment.
Some of Zeno's paradoxical arguments refer to the nature of time and the question of infinite divisibility of time intervals.
With the work of Gödel and Tarski, paradoxical arguments were reshaped into fixed point results, while the semantic conception of truth, the formalization of semantics and the arithmetization of syntax yielded firm grounds for systematic metamathematical investigations.
Paradoxical arguments are also useful for assessing the role of universes and refuting non-extensionality in EM, in presence of forms of uniform naïve comprehension (see Cantini and Minari 1999).
