paradoxes

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Recognizing the categorical difference between occurrence and existence resolves these paradoxes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

One of the paradoxes of songwriting is that it can be fiendishly difficult to craft something that sounds effortlessly simple.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Leo highlighted the "outrageous paradoxes" by which enormous amounts of food go wasted in the world "while multitudes of people scramble to find something in the garbage to put in their mouths".

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Simien: “The more specifically Black characters can live in paradoxes, the more human we are.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

We’d be able to explain to them everything we know—from the adventures of Alice in Wonderland to the paradoxes of quantum physics—and they could teach us how their people view the world.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari