Sentence examples for paradoxical properties from inspiring English sources
The counterintuitive Galilean proposition that an infinite set of things can be equal to a part of itself becomes less murky as Mr. Aczel introduces an idea developed by the mathematician David Hilbert, the Infinite Hotel, which does enlarge one's understanding of the paradoxical properties of infinity.
Bone achieves the paradoxical properties of stiffness yet flexibility, strength yet lightness through its material composition and its structural design.
In the 4th chapter Heytesbury deals with the words 'begins' and 'ceases' in a way that uncovers certain paradoxical properties of the temporal continuum.
It is these paradoxical properties that complicate the precise restoration of optimal balance between superoxide and SOD when that balance has been upset by injury, disease, or aging.
Paradoxical properties have also been reported for IL-10, the prototypic anti-inflammatory cytokine.
At the low dosage level, naltrexone exhibits paradoxical properties, including analgesia and anti-inflammatory actions, which have not been reported at larger dosages.
Her early prose had the paradoxical property of being liveliest when most dismissive: 'Her face was a mere lobe', 'They romped like galvanised goats', 'The environment mauled her weakness'.
In fact, he showed something even more surprising – he described a class of zigzagging piecewise linear paths with the following "paradoxical" property – these paths are contained in convex areas such that the smaller the area containing the path, the longer the path is – and as the area approaches 0, the path length is unboundedly large!
It starts by taking what was long seen as a paradoxical property (to be equinumerous with a proper subset) to be a defining characteristic of infinite sets.
The key to deciding which of these perspectives is predictive of the human future lies in a paradoxical property of power.
This a priori paradoxical property was fully verified here by setting the parameters of the model to the values determined in the present study (see Fig. S3).
