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What are some simple paradoxes?
General Paradoxes
- Save money by spending it.
- If I know one thing, it’s that I know nothing.
- This is the beginning of the end.
- Deep down, you’re really shallow.
- I’m a compulsive liar.
- “Men work together whether they work together or apart.” – Robert Frost.
What are some unsolved questions?
Science’s great unknowns: 20 unsolved questions
- What is the universe made of?
- How did life begin?
- Are we alone in the universe?
- What makes us human?
- What is consciousness?
- Why do we dream?
- Why is there stuff?
- Are there other universes?
What are some of the most interesting paradoxes in science?
Here are five of the most interesting scientific paradoxes: 1. The drinker’s paradox This paradox is best to be reflected upon on Friday evening at a bar, which can create the appropriate mood. It goes as follows: “In any pub, there is such a person who, if they are drinking, then everyone in the pub is drinking.“ The logic is as follows:
What are the two paradoxes in the timeline?
2) Consistency Paradoxes, such as the Grandfather Paradox and other similar variants such as The Hitler paradox, and Polchinski’s Paradox, which generate a number of timeline inconsistencies related to the possibility of altering the past.
What is a paradox in philosophy?
A paradox is a statement or problem that either appears to produce two entirely contradictory (yet possible) outcomes, or provides proof for something that goes against what we intuitively expect.
What is the crocodile paradox?
The Crocodile Paradox is such an ancient and enduring logic problem that in the Middle Ages the word “crocodilite” came to be used to refer to any similarly brain-twisting dilemma where you admit something that is later used against you, while “crocodility” is an equally ancient word for captious or fallacious reasoning 6. THE DICHOTOMY PARADOX