"The paradoxical proposition that the normal man is not only far more immoral than he believes but also far more moral than he knows" (as Freud wrote in "The Ego and the Id") arises from this dire early experience.
That vision, promoted in literature, drama, music, and public commemorative sculpture and other forms of expression, became apartheid's official culture, asserting the paradoxical proposition that the other, non-Afrikaner cultures should develop along their own lines, in a manner prescribed by the state.
However, paradoxical propositions were still possible such as "if atomic elements of things do not exist, atomic elements exists".
It is often thought that there is something paradoxical about deontological propositions like the assertion that everyone is bound to abstain from the (unprovoked) killing of others.[9] This thought rests on two standard consequentialist ideas.
The work concludes with a kind of exercise book on paradoxical and otherwise puzzling propositions, showing how they can be resolved using the techniques of the previous eight treatises.
Why shouldn't other propositions, besides the paradoxical ones, be able to signify that they are false?
As pointed out by Kornhauser and Sager (1986) referring to real jury trials, the aggregation of individual opinions on logically interrelated propositions can lead to a paradoxical result, the so-called doctrinal paradox.
Notions such as "truth," "proposition," and "class" generate, under certain unfavorable conditions, paradoxical conclusions.
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.
That is the paradoxical principle behind Swoopo, a Web site that offers a seductive and controversial proposition to online shoppers.
Thus, the claim "Cheney is a liar," where "liar" is understood as in (16), yields paradoxical conclusions, if Cheney has asserted that he is a liar, and all other propositions asserted by him are, in fact, false.
