Paradoxology

Paradoxology

Paradoxology, "the use of paradoxes". As a word it originates from Thomas Browne in his book Pseudodoxia Epidemica. [Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary]

Artists associated with the use of paradoxes include Florentin Smarandache is known for his avant-garde movement "paradoxism" as a protest against the Romanian communist regime. Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist developed a "paradoxology" in their book "The Global Empire". The authors emphasize paradoxes between the world as static and as ever-changing, while leaning on loose allegories from quantum mechanics. One may also include the philosopher Derrida in a list of users of paradoxes. Derrida's deconstructions attempt to give opposing interpretations of the same text by rhetoric arguments, similar to how lawyers in a court case may argue from the same text, the same set of laws that is, to reach opposite conclusions.

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