парадокс
имя существительное парадокс Например: The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems. — Парадокс в том, что наиболее успешно развивающиеся экономики региона имеют наиболее примитивные финансовые системы.
noun Etymology: Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxon, from neuter of paradoxos contrary to expectation, from para- + dokein to think, seem — more at decent 1. a tenet contrary to received opinion 2. a. a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true b. a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true c. an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises 3. one (as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
A relational database for Microsoft Windows, originally from Borland.
An apparently sound argument leading to a contradiction. Some famous examples are Russell's paradox and the liar paradox. Most paradoxes stem from some kind of self-reference.