Sentence examples for paradoxical argument from inspiring English sources

Yet he was allowed to get away with a paradoxical argument in which he both criticised Ipso for its ruling and praised Ipso for its existence.

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.

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).

It was a paradoxical contention.

There is something paradoxical about Sousa's argument, which urges Republican voters to agree that race matters in order to demonstrate that it really doesn't.

The argument is paradoxical but, in its way, compelling: the Middletons are unworthy of the Windsors because who, other than shameless social climbers, would accept such a raw deal?