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But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. But the ultimate potentiation of every passion is always to will its own downfall, and so it is also the ultimate passion of
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Often a seemingly paradoxical conclusion arises from an inconsistent or inherently contradictory definition of the initial premise. In the case of that apparent paradox of a time-traveler killing his own grandfather, it is the inconsistency of defining the past to which he returns as being somehow
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self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true or apparently true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion. A paradox usually involves
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refers to itself. Although statements can be self referential without being paradoxical ("This statement is written in English" is a true and non-paradoxical self-referential statement), self-reference is a common element of paradoxes. One example occurs in the
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from philosophy, a paradox that questions whether a ship repaired over time by replacing each and all of its wooden parts one at a time would remain the same ship. Paradoxes can also take the form of images or other media. For example,
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As with self-reference, a statement can contain a contradiction without being a paradox. "This statement is written in French" is an example of a contradictory self-referential statement that is not a paradox and is instead false.
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the understanding to will the collision, although in one way or another the collision must become its downfall. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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The barber paradox also exemplifies vicious circularity: The barber shaves those who do not shave themselves, so if the barber does not shave himself, then he shaves himself, then he does not shave himself, and so on.
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contradictory-yet-interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time. They result in "persistent contradiction between interdependent elements" leading to a lasting "unity of opposites".
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and Grelling's paradoxes to the latter. Ramsey introduced the by-now standard distinction between logical and semantical contradictions. Logical contradictions involve mathematical or logical terms like
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different from the one that leads up to the future from which he begins his trip, but also insisting that he must have come to that past from the same future as the one that it leads up to.
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is a paradox that is both true and false at the same time. It may be regarded as a fourth kind, or alternatively as a special case of antinomy. In logic, it is often assumed, following
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were to kill his own grandfather before his mother or father had been conceived, thereby preventing his own birth. This is a specific example of the more general observation of the
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are 'falsidical', concluding, for example, that a flying arrow never reaches its target or that a speedy runner cannot catch up to a tortoise with a small head-start.
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can be self-contradictory, i.e. it is possible for a majority of voters to support some outcome other than the one chosen (regardless of the outcome itself).
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paradoxes in many of his drawings, with walls that are regarded as floors from other points of view, and staircases that appear to climb endlessly.
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who shaves all and only those men who do not shave themselves will shave himself. In this paradox, the barber is a self-referential concept.
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is a paradox which reaches a self-contradictory result by properly applying accepted ways of reasoning. For example, the
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Roy Sorensen, 2005, A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind, Oxford University Press
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Chapter 2. The Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, Frank Ramsey, < Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy>
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William Poundstone, 1989, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge, Anchor
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leads to a contradiction, was instrumental in the development of modern logic and set theory.
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Paradoxes that are not based on a hidden error generally occur at the fringes of context or
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Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic (Fall 2017), <Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy>
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points out genuine problems in our understanding of the ideas of truth and description.
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are famously vivid examples of a theory being taken to a logical but paradoxical end.
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in the demonstration. Therefore, falsidical paradoxes can be classified as
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drew a distinction between logical paradoxes and semantic paradoxes, with
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is the opposite of what one would expect, such as becoming agitated by a
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establishes a result that appears false and actually is false, due to a
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are core elements of many paradoxes. Other common elements include
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can rarely take paradoxical turns in certain ways. One example is
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of mathematics and logic to be re-examined. One example is
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A taste for paradox is central to the philosophies of
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Vicious Circles and Infinity - A Panoply of Paradoxes
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is often used to describe a counterintuitive result.
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Another core aspect of paradoxes is non-terminating
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Index

Paradox (disambiguation)
logically
logic
invalid
critical thinking
axioms
Russell's paradox
set theory
properties
predicates
Curry's paradox
ship of Theseus
M.C. Escher
perspective-based
Self-reference
contradiction
infinite regress
circular definitions
abstraction
Self-reference
sentence
formula
liar paradox
barber paradox
barber
Contradiction

recursion
circular reasoning
infinite regress

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