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The other day I used the two-dollar word “paradox” in a conversation and got challenged: “What exactly do you mean by that?” I confess that to explain myself, I had to go to several dictionaries. Paradox can be defined as a “situation that seems impossible because it contains contradictory elements” (Cambridge) or a “statement that seems self-contradictory and yet is perhaps true” (Merriam-Webster)...
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