Paradoxes

  • Paradoxes
    By R. M. Sainsbury

    It is obligatory that if he murders Jones, he should do so gently. This appears to imply that if Smith murders Jones, it is obligatory that he do so gently. However, he cannot murder Jones gently without murdering him.

  • Paradoxes: Parallel Dimensions of Art & Poetry
    By P. S. Wagstaff

    In the second series of abstract poetry Author ps wagstaff gives extra expression to her writings.

  • Paradoxes: Guiding Forces in Mathematical Exploration
    By Hamza E. Alsamraee

    The Pirates of Penzance was a comic opera by the Victorian-era duo William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan which still enjoys much attention today. The story revolves around Fredric, who at 21 becomes an indentured servant to a group of ...

  • Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution
    By Nicholas Rescher

    A paradox (from the Greek word meaning ?contrary to expectation”) is a statement that seems self-contradictory but may be true. Exploring the distinction between truth and plausibility, the author presents...

  • Paradoxes: 100 Philosophical Paradoxes from Achilles to Zeno
    By Gareth Southwell

    Paradoxes: 100 Philosophical Paradoxes from Achilles to Zeno

  • Paradoxes
    By Roy T. Cook

    ... z > x, not(Sat((Y(...)), z)). is provable. The Uniform Fixed-point Yablo Principle states that Y(...) holds of a ... paradoxical argument to a contradiction. It is this arithmetical version of the Yablo Paradox (or something very similar) ...

  • Paradoxes
    By Piotr Łukowski

    ... Z be the set of all sets, which are not their own elements. Is the set Z its own element? Let us assume it is. Then ... paradoxes go beyond the scope of this book and are, therefore, not included. 3 Following tradition we accept that ...

  • Paradoxes
    By Richard Mark Sainsbury

    The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including Zeno's paradoxical claim that the runner can never overtake the tortoise, a new chapter on paradoxes about morals, paradoxes ...

  • Paradoxes
    By R. M. Sainsbury

    ... pink " . The other person , by contrast , knows that the lobsters would not have been pink had they not been boiled . G3 entails that that person's data do not confirm the hy- pothesis that all lobsters are pink . If you know more ...