Definition of "paradoxical" []

• Having self-contradictory properties. (adjective)

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• "I think the term paradoxical is more appropriate than impossible for obvious reasons, but intriguing stuff no less."
• "Medicare reform is desperately needed - it incentivizes doctors in paradoxical ways that are deleterious to patient care."
• "I now turn to Tibetan Buddhism's account of so-called "nothingness," a concept (or non-concept?) only visible to Hegel in paradoxical and oxymoronic terms."