The Achillies paradox is probably the most famous.... Zeno's Paradoxes - The Achilles The Problem In his most famous paradox Zeno proves that anything that is moving can never catch up with anything that is moving slower than it. The slower when running will never be overtaken by the quicker; for that which is pursuing must first reach the point from which that which is fleeing started, so that the slower must necessarily always be some distance ahead.' Let's look at what he says. First assume that a hare is chasing a tortoise. The tortoise starts some distance ahead - lets say 10 metres. They both start running at the same time. The hare runs at a speed of 10 metres every second and the tortoise runs at a speed of 1 metre every second. After 1 second the hare has got to the tortoise's starting position, but the tortoise has moved 1 metre in the same time, so the hare has not caught up yet. The tortoise is now 1 metre ahead, but by the time the hare travels 1 metre the tortoise has traveled 10cm. The tortoise is now 10 cm ahead, but by the time the hare travels 10cm the tortoise has traveled 1cm. The tortoise is now 1 cm ahead. I could keep going on indefinitely but you should see that the tortoise is always a bit further on when the hare gets to where he was.

Zeno of Elea also wrote other paradoxes. Can there be a smallest thing given that everything can be halved? Can we move, given that the distance between A to B is infinitely divisible by 2? (in otherwords before you can get from A to B you must travel half the distance, the half way point we call C, but in order to get from A to C we must again travel half the distance, which we call D, but in order to get from A to D... etc. until you run out of letters - this can be done infinitely. Making it appear as if you can never even start to move, and even that movement is illogical. Also check out the 'Arrow Paradox' and the 'Moving Rows Paradox' (they all work along the same lines).

paradox pa'-ra-dox from Gk. para, "past, contrary to" and doxa, "opinion" paradoxon, paradoxum wondrer 1. A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless. Example Whosoever loses his life, shall find it. 2. = inopinatum. The expression of one's inability to believe or conceive of something; a type of faux wondering). As such, this kind of paradox is much like aporia and functions much like a rhetorical question or erotema. Example It seems impossible to me that this administration could so quickly reverse itself on this issue. http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/P/paradox.htm Literary Dictionary: paradox paradox, a statement or expression so surprisingly self‐contradictory as to provoke us into seeking another sense or context in which it would be true (although some paradoxes cannot be resolved into truths, remaining flatly self‐contradictory, e.g. Everything I say is a lie). Wordsworth's line ‘The Child is father of the Man’ and Shakespeare's ‘the truest poetry is the most feigning’ are notable literary examples. Ancient theorists of rhetoric described paradox as a figure of speech, but 20th‐century critics have given it a higher importance as a mode of understanding by which poetry challenges our habits of thought. Paradox was cultivated especially by poets of the 17th century, often in the verbally compressed form of oxymoron. It is also found in the prose epigram; and is pervasive in the literature of Christianity, a notoriously paradoxical religion. In a wider sense, the term may also be applied to a person or situation characterized by striking contradictions. A person who utters paradoxes is a paradoxer. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: paradox Apparently self-contradictory statement whose underlying meaning is revealed only by careful scrutiny. Its purpose is to arrest attention and provoke fresh thought, as in the statement "Less is more." In poetry, paradox functions as a device encompassing the tensions of error and truth simultaneously, not necessarily by startling juxtapositions but by subtle and continuous qualifications of the ordinary meanings of words. When a paradox is compressed into two words, as in "living death," it is called an oxymoron. Philosophy Dictionary: paradox A paradox arises when a set of apparently incontrovertible premises gives unacceptable or contradictory conclusions. To solve a paradox will involve either showing that there is a hidden flaw in the premises, or that the reasoning is erroneous, or that the apparently unacceptable conclusion can, in fact, be tolerated. Paradoxes are therefore important in philosophy, for until one is solved it shows that there is something about our reasonings and our concepts that we do not understand. Famous families of paradoxes include the semantic paradoxes and Zeno's paradoxes. Columbia Encyclopedia: paradox statement that appears self-contradictory but actually has a basis in truth, e.g., Oscar Wilde's “Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.” Many New Critics maintained that paradox is not just a rhetorical or illustrative device but a basic aspect of all poetic language. Psychoanalysis: Paradox A paradox is defined, according to Paul-Claude Racamier, as a "mental formation that indissolubly binds two propositions or directives that are irreconcilable and yet not contradictory." This character of non-contradiction is essential. According to transactionalists, it is associated with the fact that irreconcilable prohibitions are not part of the same logical class, or, more simply, are not part of the same class (gesture and verb or affect and speech, for example). However, these irreconcilable directives can sometimes belong to the same class. In all cases the paradox results in infinite oscillations between two utterances of opposite meaning that are not contradictory but antagonistic—which is what accounts for its remarkable indeterminacy. The implicit conclusion of a paradox is that A = not-A. In 1952 Gregory Bateson and his colleagues began investigating the paradoxes of communication in men and animals. We distinguish two kinds of paradox: logical paradox and pragmatic paradox. The most famous example of logical paradox, first formulated in antiquity by the Greek sophists, is attributed to Epimenides: "Epimenides the Cretan claims that all Cretans are liars. But Epimenides is a Cretan. Therefore he is lying when he says that Cretans are liars. But if Cretans are not liars, Epimenides is telling the truth." Pragmatic paradoxes are practical paradoxes. We distinguish paradoxical forecasts from paradoxical prohibitions. The "double bind" is a sophisticated version of the paradoxical prohibition. Grammar Dictionary: paradox A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must sometimes be cruel in order to be kind. Another form of paradox is a statement that truly is contradictory and yet follows logically from other statements that do not seem open to objection. If someone says, “I am lying,” for example, and we assume that his statement is true, it must be false. The paradox is that the statement “I am lying” is false if it is true. http://www.answers.com/paradox?cat=technology Paradox: an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it. Portnoy’s complaint ... is too funny not to be taken seriously. *What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young - George Bernard Shaw

There are no "w"'s in a bag of M&Ms. Think about it.

If God made everything, what made God? . This is a paradox because most people believe that it is impossible for something to come from nothing. So if something requires previous material for is to exist, where did that previous material come from? And on and on and on...

A paradox is a statement that contradicts itself. "I always lie" is a paradox. If it's true, then it's a lie.

One example of a paradox is this: If god is all powerful, can he make a sandwich so big, that even he can' eat it? Now this is a paradox because first off, if god is all powerful and he can make a sandwich that he cannot eat, then he would not be all powerful as he cannot eat the sandwich(Being all powerful implies you can do anything). So a paradox is a question that seems to illogically invalidate itself, ie by answering the question you invalidate the answer. Another paradox is what happens if an immovable object meets and unstoppable force. The force is unstoppable but the object is unmovable, there can be no answer as to what would happen based on our current knowledge of physics. Therefore this question too meets the criteria for a paradox.

Which came first the chicken or the egg? That's a paradox

Could you go back in time and shoot your own grandmother? This is a paradox as if you did shoot your grandma you wouldn't be here to go back in time.

A paradox is a statement or concept that contains conflicting ideas. In logic, a paradox is a statement that contradicts itself; for example, the statement "I never tell the truth" is a paradox because if the statement is true, it must be false and if it is false, it must be true. For the paradox to be none existent the statement would have been "I always lie". In everyday language, a paradox is a concept that seems absurd or contradictory, yet is true. In a Windows environment, for instance, it is a paradox that when a user wants to shut down their computer, it is necessary to first click "start".

NO I can't. But I'm the inteligent one to solve the paradox problem. The problem just meaning less, and some are not important. So you just delete the disadvantage and transfer the word that is maningless to the important word. That all!!!

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This statement is false.

"House" and "Ben Casey"

An example of a paradox: In a village a barber shaves everyone who does not shaves himself, but no one else. The question: Who shaves the barber? Answer:If we said he shaves him self, it is wrong(the barber shaves only the person who does not shaves themselve)

It's like if someone calls you stupid, yet they can't even spell stupid.