Sentence examples for paradoxical statements from inspiring English sources

People who erroneously think "Linux" refers to the entire GNU/Linux combination get tied in knots by these facts, and make paradoxical statements such as "Android contains Linux, but it isn't Linux".

Among the methods it practices are shouts (katsu) or blows delivered by the master on the disciple, question-and-answer sessions (mondo), and meditation on paradoxical statements (koan), all intended to accelerate a breakthrough of the normal boundaries of consciousness and to awaken insight that transcends logical distinctions.

Some modern scholars have suggested that it ought to be understood primarily as a satire or consciously paradoxical work that deliberately makes incompatible and paradoxical statements to amuse the reader (Bowen 1972: 249 56; Korkowski 1976: 594 607).

Perhaps nothing in medicine more aptly depicts the paradoxical statement "doing better, feeling worse" than high blood pressure.

Koan, Japanese Kōan, in Zen Buddhism of Japan, a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline for novices, particularly in the Rinzai sect.

"I revolt, therefore we are" (R, 22) is his paradoxical statement.

According to Vlastos, Socrates came to believe a paradoxical statement (virtue is knowledge), because he overlooked the distinction between knowing-how and knowing-that, not because he thought one was a kind of the other.

With the historic election of Barack Obama, much of white America made a paradoxical statement: racism is over, they declared, now we want our country back.

Even the concern that Tehran might cheat is a paradoxical statement of Iran's autonomy in the sense that Tehran cannot be completely controlled from outside.

He called Samson's language a "paradoxical assertion," where a person asserts a point in one part of a statement and then negates it in another.

Damasio is aware that readers may find this view a shade paradoxical: "The statement departs radically from traditional wisdom and may sound implausible at first glance.