Noun
- A self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
- "This sentence is false" is a paradox.
- This is the paradox at the heart of a new book, Shrinking Violets, by the cultural historian Joe Moran, [1] <> Wannan ita ce tambayar da wani sabon littafi ‘Shrinking Violets’ ke kokarin amsawa [2]
- Or do their ˹intelligent˺ minds prompt them to this ˹paradox˺? Or are they ˹just˺ a transgressing people? <> Shin, hankulansu ne ke umarin su da wannan, kõ kuwa sũ wasu mutãne ne mãsu ƙetare haddi? = Shin, mafalkinsu ne ke umarin su da halayensu, ko kuwa mugayen mutane ne tun asali? --Qur'an 52:32