Entertainment / Literature / Paradox: Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level. Common paradoxes seem to reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions, such as noting that 'without laws, we can have no freedom.' Shakespeare's Julius Caesar also makes use of a famous paradox: Cowards die many times before their deaths (2.2.32). Richard Rolle uses an almost continuous string of paradoxes in his Middle English work, 'Love is Love That Lasts For Aye.' Oscar Wilde's 'Ballad of Reading Gaol' notes 'And all men kill the thing they love.' The taoist master Lao-Tzu makes extraordinary use of paradox in the Tao-te Ching in his discussion of 'the Way.'(also called oxymoron)
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Paradox Noun Synonyms: contradiction, self-contradiction, incongruity, inconsistency, absurdity, ambiguity, enigma, puzzle, mystery, quandary, problem, dilemma
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