Later it was observed that an approach based on the Dirac action yields paradoxical conclusions when considering the causality of the response functions it generates.

A reasonable assumption would be that the judge did not intend (B) but that the prisoner misinterprets his words to reach his paradoxical conclusion.

The paradoxical conclusion then would be that travel over any finite distance can neither be completed nor begun, and so all motion must be an illusion.

In both situations an equivalence between a past event P and a future event F is used to draw a paradoxical conclusion, and both use the same argumentation.

By the early 1980s the paradoxical conclusion was that high market share and low market share companies were often very profitable but most of the companies in between were not.

And that's led to the paradoxical conclusion that letting nature take its course has led to conditions that are progressively less natural.

It's a paradoxical conclusion to an election that was followed by Ms. Pelosi's ascension to speaker and Hillary Clinton's dominance of presidential political predictions.

Maher accepts the paradoxical conclusion, and refines it:

Using this Carnapian approach, Maher identifies a proposition which we intuitively (and correctly) know to be false, but which we easily confuse with the paradoxical conclusion.

Nicod's criterion is false, according to Good, and so the paradoxical conclusion does not follow.