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  • #16
    SlowwHand

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    • #17
      Re: The Opposite of a Paradox is...

      Originally posted by bipolarbear
      what? Please please I'm dying to know. elgooG has failed me.

      Tautology?
      My Words Are Backed With Bad Attitude And VETERAN KNIGHTS!

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      • #18
        i thought of tautology too

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        • #19
          Congruity?
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #20
            Onomatopeia?

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            • #21
              expectation
              Order of the Fly
              Those that cannot curse, cannot heal.

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              • #22
                Has anyone tried looking up antonyms of "paradox" in a thesaurus?
                A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                • #23
                  Given American usage, I would say irony.
                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by MrFun
                    Has anyone tried looking up antonyms of "paradox" in a thesaurus?
                    what?! No!
                    My Words Are Backed With Bad Attitude And VETERAN KNIGHTS!

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                    • #25
                      Paradox: Something that cannot be true, but is.

                      Opposite of Paradox: Something that must be true, but is not.

                      I'm not sure if there's a word for that, though. Tautology is not precisely the opposite (it's something that must be true, and is), but is perhaps as close as we have.
                      <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
                      I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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                      • #26
                        haven't I allways said that we can better human understanding by inventing new words?
                        My Words Are Backed With Bad Attitude And VETERAN KNIGHTS!

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by snoopy369
                          Something that must be true, but is not.
                          relativist fallacy
                          Order of the Fly
                          Those that cannot curse, cannot heal.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by snoopy369
                            Opposite of Paradox: Something that must be true, but is not.
                            That would be delusion.
                            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                            • #29
                              To have something that must be true but is not...isn't that a paradox?

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Andemagne


                                what?! No!
                                A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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