Paradox

Daily paradoxes to stimulate the mind and to point out flaws in our understanding of truth and description.

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Potato paradox: If potatoes consisting of 99% water dry so that they are 98% water, they lose 50% of their weight. #paradox #potato #language

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Curry's paradox: 'If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists.' #haskellcurry #paradox #logic

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Ant on a rubber rope: An ant crawling on a rubber rope can reach the end even when the rope stretches much faster than the ant can crawl. #paradox #ant #dailyparadox

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Bonini's Paradox: Models or simulations that explain the workings of complex systems are seemingly impossible to construct. As a model becomes more complete, it becomes less understandable; for it to be more understandable it must be less complete and therefore less accurate.

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Knower paradox: 'This sentence is not known.' Informally, it consists in considering a sentence saying of itself that it is not known, and apparently deriving the contradiction that such sentence is both not known and known. #paradox #selfreference

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Opposite day: 'It is opposite day today.' Therefore, it is not opposite day, but if you say it is a normal day it would be considered a normal day, which contradicts the fact that it has previously been stated that it is an opposite day. #paradox

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Ant on a rubber rope: An ant crawling on a rubber rope can reach the end even when the rope stretches much faster than the ant can crawl. #paradox #ant #dailyparadox

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Socratic paradox: 'All I know is that I know nothing.' #paradox #socrates #logic

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Classic derivative of the liar paradox: What would happen if Pinocchio said 'My nose grows now'? #paradox #logic #pinocchio

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Morton's fork: a type of false dilemma in which contradictory observations lead to the same conclusion. #paradox #johnmorton #decisiontheory #dailyparadox

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Tritone Paradox: An auditory illusion in which a sequentially played pair of Shepard tones is heard as ascending by some people and as descending by others. #paradox #tritone tones

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Morton's fork: a type of false dilemma in which contradictory observations lead to the same conclusion. #paradox #johnmorton #decisiontheory #dailyparadox

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Ant on a rubber rope: An ant crawling on a rubber rope can reach the end even when the rope stretches much faster than the ant can crawl. #paradox #ant #dailyparadox

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Gender Paradox: Women conform more closely than men to sociolinguistics norms that are overtly prescribed, but conform less than men when they are not. #paradox #gender

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Classic derivative of the liar paradox: What would happen if Pinocchio said 'My nose grows now'? #paradox #logic #pinocchio

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Crocodile Paradox: If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess exactly what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned? #paradox #dilemma

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Catch 22: A situation in which someone is in need of something that can only be had by not being in need of it. #paradox dailyparadox #catch22

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Bonini's Paradox: Models or simulations that explain the workings of complex systems are seemingly impossible to construct. As a model becomes more complete, it becomes less understandable; for it to be more understandable it must be less complete and therefore less accurate.

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The navigational paradox states that increased navigational precision may result in increased collision risk. The likelihood of two craft occupying the same space on the shortest distance line between two navigational points has increased. #paradox #navigation #gps

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Morton's fork: a type of false dilemma in which contradictory observations lead to the same conclusion. #paradox #johnmorton #decisiontheory #dailyparadox