According to Diderot, writing much later, Rousseau had originally intended to answer this in the conventional way, but his discussions with Diderot convinced him to propose the paradoxical negative answer that catapulted him into the public eye.

In psychotherapy, paradoxical intention is the deliberate practice of a neurotic habit or thought, undertaken in order to identify and remove it.

Consideration of the grandfather paradox has led some to the idea that time travel is by its very nature paradoxical and therefore logically impossible, on the same order as round squares.

She tried to discuss her poetry in a notorious letter to the editor in the Helsinki newspaper, Dagens Press on New Year's Eve 1918 in order to clear up some of her intentions with the paradoxical visions in her new book.

Proponents of Albert Ellis ' Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy cite a construct or concept they call low frustration tolerance, or " short-term hedonism " in order to partly explain behaviors like procrastination and certain other apparently paradoxical or self-defeating behavior.

The first story is about John reading upside-down, the second story includes a chapter in which the paragraphs are read in reverse order, and the third story has a title which is paradoxical to its plot until the final sentences.

This creates the paradoxical situation for the candidates that, in order to win, you need to appear not to be winning.

It may seem paradoxical that Baranczak began as a poetic critic of language and the social order but has achieved his greatest success as a late-20th-century Parnassist, a virtuoso of poetic form.

Rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep ( also known as paradoxical sleep ), accounts for 20 – 25 % of total sleep time in most human adults.

In response, another physicist named Joseph Polchinski sent them a letter in which he argued that one could avoid questions of free will by considering a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent through a wormhole which sends it back in time.

* Einstein Physics prevent paradoxical time travel

He also found some general properties of quantum angular momentum which seemed paradoxical at the time.

Surviving the falls via a net which in turn drops a dummy, he travels back in time, inadvertently creating the paradoxical lines of Third Murderer in Macbeth.

" A sceptical work that debunks a number of legends circulating at the time in a paradoxical and witty manner ; it displays the Baconian side of Browne — the side that was unafraid of what at the time was still called " the new learning ".

In a paradoxical way, Kant supported in the same time enlightened despotism as a way of leading humanity towards its autonomy.

A common theme in time travel film is the paradoxical nature of travelling through time.

* In Robert Heinlein's "— All You Zombies —", a young man ( later revealed to be intersex ) is taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self ( before he underwent a sex change ); he then turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father.

It is also paradoxical, in the classic way of the novel, that Orr has to crash his plane repeatedly-practising for the time that he will crash his plane.

In 1990, commenting on the Novikov self-consistency principle ( in relation to sending objects or people through a traversable wormhole into the past, and the time paradoxes that could result ), Polchinski raised a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent through a wormhole which sends it back in time.

Temporal paradox ( also known as time paradox and time travel paradox ) is a theoretical paradoxical situation that happens because of time travel.

Basically, any time travel deviating from a stable time-loop, paradoxical or not, is doomed to be destroyed.

However, because of still more errors on the part of the time travel team, as well as paradoxical events, Bill becomes even more suspicious.

In some ways, this may help explain his seemingly paradoxical vehemence in preventing child abuse while, at the same time evincing enormous callousness for adult ( or near adult ) rape victims.

This would create a paradoxical situation where the citizens would be alienated from the state and at the same time enslaved to it which according to Gandhi was demoralising and dangerous.

It is paradoxical that at a time of increasing land values these lines became derelict and, more importantly, so did several parcels of land sandwiched between the railways – land which was obviously not an economical proposition for farming.

The Banach – Tarski paradox is a theorem in measure theory that is paradoxical in the sense that it contradicts common intuitions about volume in three-dimensional space.

The theatrical tableaux style of this collection enabled the artist to break with the traditional photographic image and create a paradoxical metaphysical space.

Caution is required when benzodiazepines are used in people with personality disorders or mental retardation because of frequent paradoxical reactions.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

The position of distributists when compared to other political philosophies is somewhat paradoxical and complicated ( see Triangulation ).

Baiers is also part of a team of philosophers who hold that ethical egoism is paradoxical, implying that to do what is in one's best interests can be both wrong and right in ethical terms.

For example, the statement " A society is free if and only if liberty is maximized and people are required to take responsibility for their actions " is true or paradoxical, depending on the individual's definition of liberty.

Thus his teaching methods often seem paradoxical – Johnstone is often famous for asking his students to ‘ be boring ’, ‘ be obvious ’.

In this way, the law of excluded middle is true, but because truth itself, and therefore disjunction, is not exclusive, it says next to nothing if one of the disjuncts is paradoxical, or both true and false.

Arthur Prior asserts that there is nothing paradoxical about the liar paradox.

Saul Kripke argued that whether a sentence is paradoxical or not can depend upon contingent facts.

If Smith really is a big spender but is " not " soft on crime, then both Smith's remark about Jones and Jones's last remark about Smith are paradoxical.

This is essentially part of the differentiation between " procedural " games, where the aim ( acknowledged or otherwise ) is to tie the entire ruleset into a paradoxical condition during each turn ( a player who has no legal move available wins ), and " substantive " games, which try to avoid paradox and reward winning by achieving certain goals, such as attaining a given number of points.

Post-structuralists countered that, when closely examined, all formalized claims describing phenomena, reality, or truth, rely on some form or circular reasoning and self-referential logic that is often paradoxical in nature.

The paradoxical effect is that, the harder policing agencies work to produce security, the greater are feelings of insecurity.

" Cohen therefore considers it paradoxical " that the rise of early modern science was due at least in part to developments in Christian thought — in particular, to certain aspects of Protestantism " ( a thesis first developed as what is now sometimes called the Merton thesis ).

More recently, sociologist and historian of science Steven Shapin opened his book, The Scientific Revolution, with the paradoxical statement: " There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.

Critics of obscenity law argue that defining what is obscene is paradoxical, arbitrary, and subjective.