Meaning of paradoxology | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The use of paradoxes.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
2. The study or contemplation of paradoxes.
   uncountable, usually
3. The embrace of a paradox, especially as it involves matters of faith.
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“the obscurity of the subject or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the attemptor[…]”

“Our Smith again indulges in paradoxology. He repudiates laughing at a well-dressed philosopher sprawling in the mud, but says that the most laughable scene he ever saw in his life was the complete overturning of a very large table with all the dinner upon it.”

“I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.”

“This manner of wit—to define and illustrate at once—prefers the paradoxology to any plainsong , is a second classroom facetiousness, a spot-lighter vein of hypercriticism, devoted to splitting hairs on the temples of truth, and putting the sob in sobriety.”

“It is the moral taught by the novelist Æsop in his story of the trial of strength 'twixt the wind and the sun to divest the traveller of his cloak— the finest political fable ever written; it is the teaching of those still more famous Christmas stories, likewise in Greek, whose paradoxology proclaims that the meek shall inherit the earth .”

“Although whoever shall indifferently perpend the exceeding difficulty, which either the obscurity of the subject or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the attemptor, he will easily discern a work of this nature is not to be performed upon one legg; and should smell of oyle, if duly and deservedly handled .”

“The study of space and times involves a consideration of paradoxology.”

“The problems of cosmology were definitely felt to be less urgent than those of cosmogony and paradoxology .”

“The fuller study of paradoxology which she promises us in a footnote is a work I shall look forward to.”

“Yes, the antinomies are part of "paradoxology ". It has to do with numerology and things like that . Paradoxology is not part of logic either.”

“The great sinner is the great awakener of God to compassion. This idea is an essential one in relation to the paradoxology of morality and the values of life.”

“This report excites the Medical Tribune to the profound remark that "the use of a sudorific to check sweating may seem paradoxical." If the Tribune and the Lancet could only recognize the existence of a principle in nature under which all disordered actions can be similarly relieved, their patients would have cause to sing a paradoxology.”

“Paradoxology will help our faith to grow stronger by daring to flag up some of the paradoxes about God that challenge us, rather than covering them up.”

“It took a series of paradigm shifts in religion and society to liberate my spirit so that I might publicly proclaim that paradoxology is praise of the Divine in a quantum universe, where paradox is paradigm. Paradoxology permeates life with a unifying spirit, even where paradox interrupts, overturning our expectations, messing up our plans.”

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