. Etymologically, ‘against belief’. Full-blooded paradoxes which affect the basis of logic exist when some statement needed for logic can apparently be both proved and disproved. Among them, paradoxes depending on purely logical or...

Contradictory statement(s) whose truth value cannot be determined. Compare, for example, the semantic antinomy from classical times about the (lying) Cretan, who maintained: All Cretans are liars. This statement is true only when it is false. Such a...

Bsm. regards Truth as in Non-duality, and thus beyond the condition of the opposites. Any statement, therefore, is only partially true, its opposite being also partially true. Only in paradox, therefore, taken to its limits, can Truth be, however...

Performative antinomies are the illocutionary counterparts to the propositional (semantic) antinomy in the liar’s statement: This statement is false, which is true only if it is false. Analogously, an order like Don’t obey this order is...

"ParaDOX" is Nanase Aikawa's second album. The album reached #1 on Oricon charts. Track listing CAT on the Street Tenshi no You ni Odorasete (天使のように踊らせて, Tenshi no You ni Odorasete?) Troublemaker (トラブルメイカー,...

Back in 1984 I wrote about the travails of being a twin -- about how I never got to have my own birthday and how things had recently gotten even worse because, as it happened, Ronald Reagan had also been born on Feb. 6....

SHOWDOWN ON IRAQ Paradoxically, peace protests often lead to more death By MAX BOOT Sunday, March 2, 2003 The signs, ranging from the offensive ("Bush and Blair Wanted for Murder") to the wacky ("Make Tea Not War"), have no doubt...

Call it the Clinton contradiction. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a political trailblazer, pursuing the precedent-setting achievement of becoming the first female candidate to win the presidency. How, then, did she also become the candidate of the Democratic Party establishment _ a title historically attached to...

Jessica Lappin, a candidate for City Council from the Upper East Side, has no problem explaining the difference between her candidacy and that of her opponent, Joel Zinberg. “I’m a Democrat. I mean, that’s sort of the most obvious difference between us,” she said. “He’s...