Understanding Paradox vs. Oxymoron

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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DEFINITIONS

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Difference between Paradox and Oxymoron

According to Mackenzie Marcinko PhD, many people tend to confuse a paradox with an oxymoron, and it’s not hard to see why. Most oxymoron examples appear to be compressed version of a paradox, in which it is used to add a dramatic effect and to emphasize contrasting thoughts. Although they may seem greatly similar in form, there are slight differences that set them apart.

A paradox consists of a statement with opposing definitions, while an oxymoron combines two contradictory terms to form a new meaning. But because an oxymoron can play out with just two words, it is often used to describe a given object or idea imaginatively.

As for a paradox, the statement itself makes you question whether something is true or false. It appears to contradict the truth, but if given a closer look, the truth is there but is merely implied.

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FINANCIAL PARADOX: Compounding Interest and Time

Posted on May 26, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Time is both our ally and our enemy

If you stash $100,000 in cash under your mattress in three decades, you might not have lost a single dollar, but the value of your money has undoubtedly gone down over time.

Inflation: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2025/02/18/inflation-rule-of-70-doubling-time/

Because of inflation, each dollar will buy you less and less over time—your purchasing power decreases.  In this sense, time is cruel to the value of money and today’s dollar is worth more than tomorrow’s.

Baumols Paradox: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2025/05/22/paradox-baumols-economic-cost-disease/

In the case of investments, compounding interest relies on time to reveal its true magic.

Oxymoron: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2025/03/29/paradox-v-oxymoron/

Example: A young physician investor can invest less money over a longer period of time than an older investor who invests more money over a shorter period and ends up with more in the end. Compounding returns grow exponentially, making time more than an ally – but a force of the universe driving growth.  Time is certainly our ally in investing, but you’ll kick yourself wishing you had invested earlier when you witness compounding after a few years (or a decade).

Investing Paradox: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2024/12/22/financial-planning-investing-paradoxes/

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VACCINES: The Paradox?

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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 Vaccines cause the flu and autism

Classic Definition: Although the human body can develop a low-grade fever, muscular aches and pains in response to any vaccine, rumors that a flu shot can cause the flu are not true.

Modern Circumstance: Flu shots do contain dead flu viruses, but they are indeed dead. As for vaccines causing autism, this myth was started in 1998 with an article in the journal The Lancet.

Paradox Examples: In the study, the parents of eight children with autism said they believed their children acquired the condition after they received a vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella (the MMR vaccine). Since then, rumors have run rampant despite the results of many studies.

Oxymoron: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2025/05/11/paradox-v-oxymoron-2/

And, a 2002 study in The New England Journal of Medicine of 530,000 children found no link between vaccinations and the risk of a child developing autism.

Choice Paradox: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2025/02/23/healthcare-paradox-of-choice/

Unfortunately, the endurance of this paradoxical myth continues to eat up time and funding dollars that could be used to make advances in autism, rather than proving, over and over again, that vaccinations do not cause the condition.

Cite: Dr. Rachel Vreeman, St. Martin’s Griffin 2009.

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Paradox V. Oxymoron

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

DEFINITIONS

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Paradoxes are broader concepts that may include statements, situations, or phenomena, revealing a truth through contradiction (e.g., “less is more”).

Oxymorons are combinations of two contradictory words to create a new meaning (e.g., “deafening silence”).

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Most people tend to confuse a paradox with an oxymoron, and it’s not hard to see why. Most oxymoron examples appear to be compressed version of a paradox, in which it is used to add a dramatic effect and to emphasize contrasting thoughts. Although they may seem greatly similar in form, there are slight differences that set them apart.

A paradox consists of a statement with opposing definitions, while an oxymoron combines two contradictory terms to form a new meaning. But because an oxymoron can play out with just two words, it is often used to describe a given object or idea imaginatively.

As for a paradox, the statement itself makes you question whether something is true or false. It appears to contradict the truth, but if given a closer look, the truth is there but is merely implied.

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