Abstract

Any description must take some corresponding stipulation as its premise. All stipulations are formed in the tension between objective basis and subjective needs. This means that description has clear anthropological characteristics and therefore the nature of standard. Description will reach its edge and lose its meaning while it describes the stipulation as the premise of itself. But it will turn into the basic way of development of human description when the description is made on the foundation of a higher level stipulation and goes beyond the original one. Some stipulations are clear and definite, and some others may be implied. It’s the origin of paradoxes that the description conflicts with the implied stipulation as the premise of itself. The basic origin of paradox is the conflict involves stipulation in the description. As for the concrete origins of paradoxes, there are three kinds of mechanisms that descriptions causes the conflicts between stipulations: Description causes the conflicts between the description as a special stipulation itself and the stipulation as the premise of the description itself; Description causes the conflicts between stipulation by interrelating stipulation involve paradox; Description causes the conflicts between stipulation by the adhesion of stipulation; Description causes the conflicts between stipulation by the confusion of stipulation.