The Most Intriguing Paradox
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No paradox can be more complicated or simple than another. However, some paradoxes are more intriguing, which leaves us with a new paradox: why do paradoxes puzzle us differently?
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1.
“Don’t go near the water until you’ve learned to swim”
Then how to learn to swim?
8 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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“The further you go, the less you know”
6 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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“This statement is false”
If this statement is false, it’s true, and vice versa.
2 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
4.
“Everybody in this room lies”
…Including the one who says that?
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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“I know I know nothing”
This is more than intriguing. This is fascinating.
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
6.
Magritte’s “This Is Not a Pipe”
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise to balance it.”
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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“A hard days’ night”
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
10.
Original copy
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
11.
“Bitter sweet symphony”
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
12.
Non-infinity
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13.
“This silence is deafening”
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
14.
Zeno’s Achilles and the Tortoise
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15.
Escher’s Drawing Hands
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16.
The Moebius band
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The non-transitive dice
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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Curry’s paradox
“If this sentence is not true, then Santa Clause exists.” What if he really exists?
-1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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“The more alike the enemy becomes, the more different he will appear.”
-1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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The time paradox
-2 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
21.
“Ignorance is strength” – From Orwell’s 1984
-2 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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