List of statements that appear to contradict themselves
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This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list collects only scenarios that have been called a paradox by at least one source and have their own article in this encyclopedia. Although considered paradoxes, some of these are simply based on fallacious reasoning (falsidical), or an unintuitive solution (veridical). Informally, the term paradox is often used to describe a counter-intuitive result.
However, some of these paradoxes qualify to fit into the mainstream viewpoint of a paradox, which is a self-contradictory result gained even while properly applying accepted ways of reasoning. These paradoxes, often called antinomy, point out genuine problems in our understanding of the ideas of truth and description.
This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list collects...
logical paradoxes and semantic paradoxes, with Russell's paradox belonging to the former category, and the liar paradox and Grelling's paradoxes to the...
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impossibility. Temporal paradoxes fall into three broad groups: bootstrap paradoxes, consistency paradoxes, and Newcomb's paradox. Bootstrap paradoxes violate causality...
The paradoxesof material implication are a group of true formulae involving material conditionals whose translations into natural language are intuitively...
This article contains a discussion ofparadoxesof set theory. As with most mathematical paradoxes, they generally reveal surprising and counter-intuitive...
discussion of hanging paradox together with other epistemic paradoxes Binkley, Robert (1968). "The Surprise Examination in Modal Logic". The Journal of Philosophy...
g., in industrial increasing returns to scale). Gravity model of trade Listofparadoxes Leontief, Wassily (1953). "Domestic Production and Foreign Trade;...
Halting problem Listofparadoxes Double bind Russell, Bertrand (1919). "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism", reprinted in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell...
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solely depend on what he said after "my nose grows now". Liar paradoxListofparadoxes Eldridge-Smith, Peter (27 January 2011). "Pinocchio against the...
principle Listofparadoxes Maxwell's demon No-hair theorem No-hiding theorem Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet The short form "ínformation paradox" is also...
of those savings. Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op Degrowth Frugality Listofparadoxes Social trap Vicious circle Tragedy of the commons In Praise of Idleness...
indefinite amount of time. Entropy (arrow of time) Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death Heat death of the universe Listofparadoxes Thermodynamic...
The paradoxof nihilism is a family ofparadoxes regarding the philosophical implications of nihilism, particularly situations contesting nihilist perspectives...
famous of these paradoxes is known as the "French paradox": France enjoys a relatively low incidence of CHD despite a high per-capita consumption of saturated...
originating from France Israeli paradox – Paradoxof high CHD incidence among Israeli Jews Listofparadoxes – Listof statements that appear to contradict...
sentences in English Crocodile dilemma Listofparadoxes Russell's paradox Carroll, Lewis (July 1894). "A Logical Paradox". Mind. 3 (11): 436–438. Carroll,...
The Existence Of God omnipotence paradox is a family ofparadoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent. The paradox arises, for example...
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