Law vs Paradox - What's the difference?
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(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify "what happens," without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity".
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
A self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
* {{quote-book, 1962, Abraham Wolf, Textbook of Logic, page=255
, passage=According to one version of an ancient paradox , an Athenian is supposed to say "I am a liar." It is then argued that if the statement is true, then he is telling the truth, and is therefore not a liar
A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
* 1983 May 21, (Ronald Reagan), "",
A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.(jump)
* {{quote-book, 1879, ,
, passage=How quaint the ways of Paradox ! / At common sense she gaily mocks! / Though counting in the usual way years twenty-one I've been alive, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / I am a little boy of five!}}
A person or thing having contradictory properties.
* {{quote-book, 1999, Virginia Henley, A Year and a Day
, passage=You are a paradox of bitch and angel.}}
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
* {{quote-book, 1994, James Joseph Pirkl, Transgenerational Design, page=3
, passage=And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox : How young are the old?}}
(obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
* {{quote-book, 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, section=
, passage=Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox , but now the / time gives it proof. }}
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, p. 3
(uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
* {{quote-book, 1906, (Richard Holt Hutton), Brief Literary Criticisms, page=40
, passage=The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language. }}
(uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
* {{quote-book, 1866, Edward Poste, Aristotle on Fallacies, Or, The Sophistici Elenchi, page=43
, passage=Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox . }}
(uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.(jump)
* {{quote-book, 1988, Martin Lakin, Ethical Issues in the Psychotherapies, page=103
, passage=Defiance-based paradox is employed so that the family will actively oppose and deliberately sabotage the prescription. }}
In uncountable terms the difference between law and paradox
is that law is the body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities while paradox is the use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.In obsolete terms the difference between law and paradox
is that law is a tumulus of stones while paradox is a statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.As an interjection law
is an exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.As a proper noun Law
is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.law
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(wikipedia law)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
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* sharia lawDerived terms
* above the law * against the law * a law unto oneself * * Avogadro’s law * Beer-Lambert law * Boyle’s law * bylaw * canon law * Charles’ law * civil law * common law * contract law * corn laws * Coulomb’s law * criminal law * de Morgan’s laws * employment law * family law * Faraday’s laws * federal law * feudal law * Fourier’s law * Gauss’s law * Graham’s law * Gresham’s law * Henry’s law * Hooke’s law * Hubble’s law * international law * into law * Kepler’s laws of planetary motion * Kerchoff’s laws * law and order * lawful * lawgiver * lawlike * law lord * lawmaker, law-maker * law of cosines * law of large numbers * law of sines * law of small numbers * law of tangents * law of the land * law of the tongue * lay down the law * long arm of the law * lynch law * martial law * Moore’s law * Murphy's law * natural law * Newton’s law of cooling * Newton’s law of gravitation * Newton’s laws of motion * Ohm’s law * physical law * power law * Poiseuille’s law * possession is nine points of the law * property law * Roman law * statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US) * state law * statute law (Commonwealth English) * Stefan-Boltzmann law * Stokes’ law * sus law * take the law into one’s own hands * the law is an ass * three laws of robotics * unwritten law * Zipf’s lawSee also
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From (etyl) . Also spelled low.Noun
(en noun)- You might climb the Law [...] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
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(wikipedia paradox)Noun
(es)- "This sentence is false" is a paradox .
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- It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
- The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully.
- Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox .
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan], year_published=1941, chapter=[[w:The Pirates of Penzance, The Pirates of Penzance]
- He is a paradox ; you would not expect him in that political party.
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- they contended to make that Maxim'', that there is no faith to be held with Infidels, a meere and absurd ''Paradox [...].
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Usage notes
* A statement which contradicts itself in this fashion is a paradox; two statements which contradict each other are an antinomy. * This use may be considered incorrect or inexact. ** {{quote-news, 1995, January 14, Ian Stewart,Paradox of the Spheres, New Scientist , passage=Banach and Tarski's theorem (commonly known as the Banach-Tarski paradox, though it is not a true paradox, being counterintuitive rather than self-contradictory) ** {{quote-book, 1998, , Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
citation, passage=It is not a true paradox, merely highly nonintuitive behavior, if one accepts the realistic and local assumptions of EPR., i2=**:}} * This use may be considered incorrect or inexact. ** {{quote-book, 1917, George Crabb,
Crabb's English Synonymes, chapter=ENIGMA, PARADOX, RIDDLE, edition=Centennial ed. , passage=An enigma, therefore, is not a paradox, but a paradox, not being intelligible, may seem like an enigma. , i2=**:}}