Sentence examples for paradoxical implication from inspiring English sources

This has one immediately paradoxical implication: namely, that if unjust combatants fight without violating the rules governing the conduct of war, all their individual acts of war are permissible; yet these individual acts together constitute a war that is unjust and therefore impermissible.

This, however, raises the concern that far from advocating a system in which all other citizens are respected as free and equal, Rawls' view has the paradoxical implication that "to follow the duty of civility is perforce to perpetrate injustice" by Rawls' own lights (Wolterstorff 2012, 121).

The painting itself is warmly expressive, and also pretty private, visibly drawing a veil over the rich-hued life within; and playing, like so many Hodgkins, with the paradoxical implications of scale: an intimate subject, which might have made for one of his intense small paintings, given a treatment five feet wide.

HD-confirmation, however, is also known to suffer from distinctive "paradoxical" implications.

The paradoxical implications of the latter view have been prominently explored by Derek Parfit.[8] The main source of skepticism concerning the very possibility of future people having welfare rights vis-à-vis those currently living rests upon the contingency of future people upon currently living people's decisions and actions.

The novelty of scientific or technological knowledge has a paradoxical dual implication.

Section 4 discusses the roles and implications of paradoxical data for theories of causal inference and for analyses of causal relations in terms of probabilities.

Counter-intuitive and somewhat paradoxical were the health implications of upward income for men when change in relative rank position was accounted for.

This paradoxical finding has major implications for the interpretation of dose-dependent effects of Nec-1 in murine experimental disease models and may also explain some controversies in the literature.

Second, innovation paradoxes require paradoxical management approaches.

It is a paradoxical finding whose most likely implication is the lack of a protective effect of maintenance therapy in our MDD sample.