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4tell0life4 Since: Mar, 2018 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
#1: Sep 16th 2018 at 6:21:19 PM

Can anybody describe the difference of Paradox Person and Oxymoronic Being?

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HeraldAlberich from Ohio (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#2: Sep 17th 2018 at 10:12:50 AM

Courtesy links because of the first-post bug: Oxymoronic Being, Paradox Person. (Typing them here is easier than using the search bar anyway.)

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#3: Sep 17th 2018 at 11:07:12 AM

Paradox Person is a character who shouldn't exist one way or another. Something about their very being isn't something that should ever have existed. Some people claim the platypus is one.

Oxymoronic Being is a self-contradictory character. The definition of what they are contradicts itself, like a square triangle.

I don't see a reason for why the tropes can't overlap, but neither is a definition of the other.

Edited by AnotherDuck on Sep 17th 2018 at 8:07:00 PM

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HeraldAlberich from Ohio (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#4: Sep 17th 2018 at 11:46:17 AM

One type of Oxymoronic Being is shown in the page picture: a Mix-and-Match Critter whose halves are opposed to each other; in this case, a fire-fish.

Paradox Person is a more metaphysical impossibility; their existence breaks the rules of their world, not in a simple opposites-mashed-together sort of way, but something deeper. The alternate name, Extra Existential Entity, may be a better fit.

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