Sentence examples for remarkable paradox from inspiring English sources

By the end of the 17th century, through a remarkable paradox, the KJB had come to be loved as much by the Americans as the British.

In the 1950's, a pioneering American scientist, Ancel Keys, discovered a remarkable paradox.

These facts illustrate a remarkable paradox.

Patients who are suffering from AS show a remarkable paradox in the skeleton.

That mathematicians and physicists have worked ever since to develop responses to the more ingenious of his paradoxes is remarkable, though perhaps not surprising, for immunity to his paradoxes might be taken as a condition upon the adequacy of our most basic physical concepts.

It is a remarkable post-cold war paradox: At a time when the rest of the world is looking to America for leadership on openness, Congress would make it harder for Americans to know what their government is doing and would give aid and comfort to every tin-pot dictator who wants to claim "national security" as the reason to keep his citizens in the dark.

Furthermore, as is witnessed by Hilbert's unpublished Sommer Vorlesung 1905 (see Kahle 2004), Hilbert discovered a remarkable functional version of Russell's paradox, later to become popular in the context of combinatory logic, lambda calculus and recursion theory.

But some new problems were beginning to surface with respect to Hempel's covering-law explication of explanation and old problems remained from his studies of induction, the most remarkable of which was known as "the paradox of confirmation".

A final example might be the paradox of the unexpected hanging, a remarkable puzzle that first became known by word of mouth in the early 1940s.

Whatever may have spurred Zeno's development of his collection of paradoxes, his arguments quickly achieved a remarkable level of notoriety.

It is remarkable that, while many of the responses to Zeno's paradoxes, and even some modern formulations of the paradoxes themselves, depend on advanced mathematical techniques, Zeno's original arguments do not themselves appear to have involved any particularly complicated mathematics.