"It's our way of injecting a freshness and intimacy and scale — those things being potentially paradoxical, but we like that — to present the show in a different way".
Economists are fond of paradoxical arguments, like the rebound effect or the claim that safer cars cause more deaths.
This may sound paradoxical, but, like the modern bridge or airplane, they can be extremely handsome without the conscious attempt to create beauty.
These global dynamics produce some stirring musical hybrids, but they can also produce paradoxical characters like the Nigerian Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat singer-songwriter who, in standing up to a corrupt and murderous regime, Lynskey writes, "spoke like Huey Newton, lived like Hugh Hefner and ruled his private kingdom like an autocratic village chief".
Though they might seem paradoxical, figures like these are what one should expect, says Wielgus. "This kind of heavy hunting merely exacerbates the problem" he says.
Dialetheism also affords a treatment of the set-theoretic paradoxes via set theories based on an unrestricted "comprehension schema" for sets: for any condition or property, including paradoxical ones like non-self-membership, there exists a corresponding set.
Moreover, it has been argued that one particular way of motivating a restriction of (ES-prop) is incompatible with deflationism: namely, that paradoxical sentences like The Liar are meaningless, or do not express propositions.
The characteristic property of paradoxical sentences like the Liar sentence is that they are unstable in revision sequences: there is no point in the sequence at which they reach a stable truth value.
However, paradoxical responses like deterioration of asthma with use of these drugs have been reported in infants [ 34].
