Sentence examples for conceptual paradox from inspiring English sources

"Hitler was supposed to serve as a conceptual paradox to the superheroes," he said, noting that the superheroes were painted in vivid colors, while Hitler's image was in shades of gray.

They were notorious for logic-chopping, purportedly idle conceptual puzzles, and paradoxes such as "Today go to Yue but arrive yesterday" and "A white horse is not a horse".

If Socratic definition anticipates conceptual analysis, then the paradox that is formulated in this dialogue Meno's paradox anticipates the paradox of analysis.

Even so construed, such deontologies join agent-centered deontologies in facing the moral (rather than the conceptual) versions of the paradox of deontology.

Now if there is no paradox on the conceptual level, what then is it that makes retro-suicide physically impossible?

If such duty is agent-relative, then the rights-based deontologist (no less than the agent-centered deontologist) has the conceptual resources to answer the paradox of deontology.

Yet even agent-centered versions face this paradox; having the conceptual resources (of agency and agent-relative reasons) is not the same as making it plausible just how a secular, objective morality can allow each person's agency to be so uniquely crucial to that person.

As it is absent from classical physics and from most quantum textbooks, the concept is unfamiliar, and one has to work through various examples in order to gain an intuitive as well as a formal understanding of how it deals with the various paradoxes and other conceptual difficulties of quantum theory.

Thus, based on pragmatic philosophy, this paper aims to increase our understanding of what constitutes a paradox and suggests a conceptual framework from which organizations and their members can frame and cope with tensions that result from paradoxes.

The debate over the information loss paradox also highlights the conceptual importance of the relationship between different effective theories.

This conceptual framework helps resolve the apparent paradox between the high abundance of ATP-dependent remodelers per nucleus and the relative success of sequence-based predictions of nucleosome positioning in vivo.