davidad

18-year-old Ph.D. student at MIT,
studying the nature of human cognition through programming language theory;
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Dictionary Paradox

The dictionary entry for “paradox” contains two contradictory definitions.

2a. An apparently absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition, or a strongly counter-intuitive one, which investigation, analysis, or explanation may nevertheless prove to be well-founded or true.

2b. A proposition or statement that is actually self-contradictory, absurd, or intrinsically unreasonable.

Oh, the irony.

Source: oed.com

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