Define Paradox

[asplundii]

Well your description would most likely be the result of chimerism right?

Or the result of a mosaic or a handful of other less common genetic foibles...

Then I found there are some who say chimeras and Paradox are different where chimera is as stated and Paradox describes other oddities.

Perhaps this is an after-effect of some people beginning to savvy up to the fact that the term "paradox" is, to all intents and purposes, illegitimate and so they are moving to more legitimate terminology

Kinda related, is there scenerios that can lead to a chimera looking animal, but not be a chimera? I've seen many people say there can be other reasons for the chimera look, but I've never seen an explanation besides "anomaly", which is a cute way of saying "I donno" in my eyes

Yeah, there are other ways the "paradox" look can occur, as I noted above. Mosaicism is the more likely candidate of "paradoxing" that we are likely to see in the hobby (above even chimerism) and there are a number of ways that mosaics can come to be. And then there are a handful of other less likely, but not impossible, mechanisms that follow those two.

Apperently others use it to describe beyond that as any oddity.

Huh? Well for me, I certainly do not merit using the term as applying to any oddity. Doing that kind of defeats the purpose of using the word because it is not then in keeping with actual definition of the word. I mean... While "paradox" may be illegitimate terminology, at least using it to describe animals such as those I outlined makes a degree of sense.