paradox
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This is the paradox at the heart of the current moment.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
It feels then something like that classic philosophical paradox of an immovable object encountering an unstoppable force: logically impossible because the existence of one precludes the other.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
This idea helps resolve a long-standing paradox in evolutionary science.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
That is the paradox at the heart of the current trans-Atlantic debate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
It is the infinite that lies at the heart of Zeno’s paradox: Zeno had taken continuous motion and divided it into an infinite number of tiny steps.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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