guessing game vs paradox

guessing game

noun
  • A situation in which there is insufficient information, requiring participants to rely on conjecture. 

  • Any game the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc, for which the other player or players provide clues. 

paradox

noun
  • An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth. 

  • A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true. 

  • The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing. 

  • An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. 

  • A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself. 

  • A person or thing having contradictory properties. 

  • A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome. 

  • A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time. 

  • The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey. 

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