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::Aren't oxymorons often poor candidates for either side of the oxymoron? For example, a "base-stealing slugger" is probably not-so-good at either skill.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:23, 14 April 2012 (EDT)
::Aren't oxymorons often poor candidates for either side of the oxymoron? For example, a "base-stealing slugger" is probably not-so-good at either skill.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:23, 14 April 2012 (EDT)
:::That's not an example of an oxymoron. Tim Raines could steal bases well, and was a solid hitter. A "base-stealing slugger," indeed. Oxymorons are things that are inherently self-contradictory: "jumbo shrimp" (get it?); "military intelligence," "Same difference," and "business ethics" are tongue-in-cheek examples. [[User:DVMRoberts|DVMRoberts]] 13:38, 14 April 2012 (EDT)
:::That's not an example of an oxymoron. Tim Raines could steal bases well, and was a solid hitter. A "base-stealing slugger," indeed. Oxymorons are things that are inherently self-contradictory: "jumbo shrimp" (get it?); "military intelligence," "Same difference," and "business ethics" are tongue-in-cheek examples. [[User:DVMRoberts|DVMRoberts]] 13:38, 14 April 2012 (EDT)
==''Mathematical Physicists'' is '''not''' an oxymoron==
Aschlafly, I understand that you don't like this term, as some [[relativists]] used to describe themselves with it. That isn't enough to make it an oxymoron:
*''Christian scientists'' is not an oxymoron, though the followers of the rather nutty cult of Mary Baker Eddy call themselves ''Christian Scientists''
*[[Richard Courant]]'s and [[David Hilbert]]'s book ''Methoden der mathematischen Physik'' (''Methods of mathematical physics'') was first printed in 1924 - and the title is not intended to be a pun.
*Feynman didn't criticize the term itself.
[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 08:12, 16 April 2012 (EDT)