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paradox
| Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. |
| —Groucho Marx (1895-1977) |
A statement that seems to lead to a logical self-contradiction, or to a situation that contradicts common intuition. The word "paradox" comes from the Greek para ("beyond") and doxa ("opinion" or "belief"). The identification of a paradox based on seemingly simple and reasonable concepts has often led to significant advances in science, philosophy, and mathematics.
See also:
- Allais paradox
- Arrow paradox
- Banach-Tarski paradox
- Berry's paradox
- birthday paradox
- Burali-Forti paradox
- coin paradox
- Epimenides paradox
- grandfather paradox
- Grelling's paradox
- liar paradox
- Newcomb's paradox
- nine rooms paradox
- Parrondo’s paradox
- raven paradox
- Russell's paradox
- St. Petersburg paradox
- Siegel’s paradox
- twins paradox
- unexpected hanging
- Zeno's paradoxes
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