PARADOX
Here is the Ambiguity Paradox: Everything is ambiguous; however, nothing is ambiguous.” Perhaps all words and sentences are ambiguous, if they are not seen or heard in the larger context. However, the larger context (both linguistic and non-linguistic) resolves almost all of the ambiguities--Except when the speaker is intentionally trying to be ambiguous, as with linguists and politicians.
Then we go on to discuss science fiction and the “grandfather paradox,” and the building which is larger on the inside than the outside, and some “Catch-22 paradoxes,” some visual paradox, and many other paradoxes from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries as expressed by Montaigne, Beaumarchais, Josh Billings, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Marshall McLuhan, Joseph Heller, Gilbert and Sullivan, and others.
Gilbert and Sullivan often relied on paradox for comic effect. In The Pirates of Penzance, they composed a song about paradoxes:
How quaint the ways of paradox!
At common sense she gaily mocks!
A paradox, a paradox,
A most ingenious paradox!
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!
Poor Fredrick was to be the apprentice on a pilate ship until he was 21. But, by mistake, he became the apprentice on a pirate ship until he was 21.
But he was born on February 29th in a leap year, so he was only five birthdays old. For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal, Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, Twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty, One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.
Through some singular coincidence—I shouldn’t be surprised if it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy—You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, On the twenty-ninth of February.’ And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover, That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, You’re only five and a little bit over!
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!
“AI can make you laugh. But can it ever be truly humorous?”
by Jyoti Madhusoolanan”
https://undark.org/2025/07/21/ai-humor/
“Can AI essay writers understand satire, irony, or sarcasm in essays?”
by Daniel Felix
https://www.yomu.ai/resources/can-ai-essay-writers-understand-satire-irony-or-sarcasm-in-essays
International Society for Humor Studies: http://www.humorstudies.org/
Nilsen, Alleen and Don. The Language of Humor: An Introduction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2019. www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-of-humor/B37E80D6A21DB3A2E344A4061D996D9C
It's true. Paradox makes us experience two extreme worlds simultaneously, and I believe this is where we should adopt a global vision of these two coexisting worlds and take new steps toward change and therefore toward human evolution.
Therefore, if we sometimes didn't consider paradoxes part of our existence, it would likely remain stuck in the same place. That is, without the courage to glimpse a possible change in paradox, through the courage we should have to try to believe in paradox, we would always be stuck in our habits of watching our existence unfold as spectators rather than protagonists.
Don LF Nielsen, mi fa piacere!
Sono a disposizione se hai qualche domanda da pormi per in confronto costruttivo sulle mie tesi che ho visto che stai seguendo.
Per chiudere ti ringrazio e comunque viva sempre il paradosso!
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