Summary
Paradoxes are often used to engage readers to discover an underlying logic in seemingly self-contradictory statements or phrases.
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For example, the Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise is a theoretical discussion of movement put forward by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea in the 5th century BC.
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The Bootstrap Paradox is a paradox of time travel that questions how something that is taken from the future and placed in the past could ever come into being in the first place.
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The Boy or Girl Paradox is a probability question that asks what the probability is that a family with two children, one of whom is known to be a boy, has the other child as a boy.
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The Card Paradox is a statement written on a postcard that reads “The statement on the other side of this card is true”.
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These examples demonstrate that paradoxes can be found in everyday conversation and writing, movies, poetry, prose, drama, lyrics, and clever quotations.
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