The Mandarin paradox is an ethical parable used to illustrate the difficulty of fulfilling moral obligations when moral punishment is unlikely or impossible...
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Look up Mandarin, mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, or mandarine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Mandarin Chinese...
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considers that the choice made by Teodoro was a “reworking of the ‘Mandarin paradox’ first posed by French writer Chateaubriand in 1802”. Sobre notes the...
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authors, including Dom Guéranger and Félicité Robert de La Mennais. Mandarin paradox Ferber, Michael (2010). Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford...
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When a white horse is not a horse is a paradox in Chinese philosophy attributed to Gongsun Long, a philosopher of the Warring States period. It appears...
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Paradox (Chinese: 殺破狼・貪狼) is a 2017 neo-noir Hong Kong action film directed by Wilson Yip, co-produced by Soi Cheang, with action direction by Sammo Hung...
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Rotten Tomatoes. "What Fresh Off the Boat does with its Mandarin speaker that The Cloverfield Paradox couldn't". The Verge. 8 February 2018. Lucille Soong...
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Gon (manga) (category Paradox Press titles)
of the manga were published by Mandarin Publishing (UK, 1994) and Paradox Press (USA, 1996–2000). The single Mandarin volume contains the eight stories...
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Languages of Singapore (section Standard Mandarin)
correspond with the major ethnic groups present in Singapore at the time: Mandarin had gained status since the introduction of Chinese-medium schools; Malay...
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(cf. Mandarin 鴨子; yāzi) 'color' – 色; sek (cf. Mandarin 顏色; yán sè) In other bisyllabic words, the syllables are inverted, as compared to Mandarin. Examples...
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