paradoxes

• We have as good as hinted, that his Lordship's poetry consists mostly of a tissue of superb common-places; even his paradoxes are common-place . —  The Spirit of the Age
• His first, Mathematics and Humor, is a lighthearted treatise on how much of humor - particularly riddles, paradoxes, and non sequiturs - is based on mathematical models. —  Omni: April 1993
• If they were going to cause time paradoxes, they'd have done so by now. —  Analog, July-August 2006
• And then they came for the paradoxes, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't the set of all sets not members of themselves. —  Philosophy, et cetera
• But the reader will find Gilbert, the great precursor of sound magnetical theory; and several others on whom no censure can be cast, though some of their paradoxes are inadmissible, {7} some unprovoked, and some capital jokes, true or false: the author of Vestiges of Creation is an instance. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)

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