The greatest most common paradoxes in the world

What happens if you go back in time to before you were born and kill your mother?

 

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I AGREE THAT SOME OF THE EXAMPLES ABOVE WOULD BETTER QUALIFY AS OXYMORONS.........

Paradox

[Logic and mathematics] - an apparently contradictory conclusion that is derived from what seem to be valid premises.

Paradoxes have been known since the time of the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea in the 5th century bc. Many paradoxes, on inspection, prove to be based on false premises or arguments, or on incomplete presuppositions underlying the logical or mathematical systems involved. Other paradoxes, however, have been more difficult to resolve, and their study has contributed to the development of modern mathematics.

Semantic paradoxes depend on the structure of language.

EXAMPLES IN USE:
The poet Alexander Pope referred to the paradox of the human condition in his Essay on Man.

Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!​

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FROM A MORE MODERN POEM:

PARADOX

Are life and death the same? I wonder.

Such a paradox confounds my mind;

uncertainties dare to taunt me,

boldly crossing opposing confines.[/​

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OXYMORON

Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another. A compressed paradox.

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paradox
irony
synoeciosis
................pmt​

 

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I think we're talking about literary paradoxes on this thread, but anyway, here goes. If you went back in time and killed your mother; you wouldn't exist, so you couldn't have gone back in time to kill her and so she'd still be alive, which means, that you could have been born after all and therefore, even if you did go back in time and tried to kill her, you would fail in the attempt.

 

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""I have a missing tooth."

How on earth can you HAVE sonmething that is missing?!"
quite easily, steal it from someone else, they're missing it, and you have it

 

Hmmm....Tablariddim, Socrates could not have handled that one any better. Now, can you explain the speed of darkness? PMT

 

No that doesn't work

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Its more general than just killing your mother. Anything u do in the past will effect the future so that there are 2 possible outcomes for everything u do. Actually some physicists believe that this happen. The many world theory says that every conceivable event actually happens but we are following only one of these paths

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And I have to wonder upon what information such a theory is based. It is an interesting theory, but hangs in the air like cobwebs riding on the wind.

 

Shoot, thanks! I haven't thought about that!
It just brightened my day.

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"can you explain the speed of darkness"
can you explain the speed of hope? or majesty?
none of these exist, darkness is a lack of something and therefore isnt anything

anytime rosa, btw, can i sell you some teeth

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alian...........Can you explain the speed of darkness was a question I posed to Tablariddim. Apparently, he understood that it was an attempt at humor, like we know the speed of light, so what is the speed of darkness? Get it?

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pmt

 

yeah i know pmt, ive heard the joke alotta times b4. i just dont like one line posts, so i added that as well

 

That is okay alian. I have my computer set to flag me when a new msg. is posted to a thread on which I have made a comment, and when I saw that, I wanted to be sure that you knew I was not dead serious.

 

There is the famous math paradox of the fast Achilles and the slow turtle.
Even though Achilles is a fast chap, he never gets to take over the turtle; because when the turtle is in position b, Achilles is in position a, and when he gets into position b, the turtle is in c. Then they get infinitensimaly close, but Achilles never manages to be in z before the turtle.

What it the original misconstruction in this?

 

Also, is calling something a "misconstruction" also a misconstruction?

 

Has anyone read the Buddhist "Diamond Sutra"

I think this would top the paradox list when it comes to the nature of true knowledge.....

My interpretation is

To know is to loose what you know
To grasp something is to loose it
To hold a thought is to fail to think
Hmmm....somethng along those lines

 

let's go fight for peace.

 

heres something i have always believed is oxymoronis/paradoxic

'to teach philosophy'

 

Heres an oxymoron i thought of today:
Indirectly adjacent

 

Of course the very first paradox that ever came to be was the father or mother of all paradox's.

The scientists refer to it as the Big bang, the creationists refer to it as the creation of God.

"The great big paradox in the sky"

For reality to come from nothing, for nothing to become reality.

For God to create himself from nothing.....

Of course this defines the word paradox.....

So science and religion are both founded on a paradox.....hmmmmm....no wonder I am so confused.......

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is it no wonder that "God" talks in riddles...after all is he not a paradox?