The Temperature paradox or Partee's paradox is a classic puzzle in formal semantics and philosophical logic. Formulated by Barbara Partee in the 1970s...

Temperature paradox: If the temperature is 90 and the temperature is rising, that would seem to entail that 90 is rising. Unexpected hanging paradox:...

A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...

Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night paradox or Olbers and Cheseaux's paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says...

relatively brittle "glassy" state into a viscous or rubbery state as the temperature is increased. An amorphous solid that exhibits a glass transition is...

The heat death paradox, also known as thermodynamic paradox, Clausius' paradox, and Kelvin's paradox, is a reductio ad absurdum argument that uses thermodynamics...

The black hole information paradox is a paradox that appears when the predictions of quantum mechanics and general relativity are combined. The theory...

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness. Temperature is measured with a thermometer. It reflects...

The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural...

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Stevin was the first to explain the paradox mathematically. In 1916 Richard Glazebrook mentioned the hydrostatic paradox as he described an arrangement he...

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The sorites paradox (/soʊˈraɪtiːz/), sometimes known as the paradox of the heap, is a paradox that results from vague predicates. A typical formulation...

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Braess's paradox is the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it. The paradox was first...

The cool tropics paradox is the apparent difference between modeled estimates of tropical temperatures during warm, ice-free periods of the Cretaceous...

increases in temperature and radius), which is termed radiative forcing. Sagan and Mullen suggested during their descriptions of the paradox that it might...

systems Situation semantics – Concept in situation theory Temperature paradox – Logical paradox The linguist Barbara Partee credibly claims to have invented...

A physical paradox is an apparent contradiction in physical descriptions of the universe. While multiple physical paradoxes have accepted resolutions,...

confusion increases. In severe hypothermia, there may be hallucinations and paradoxical undressing, in which a person removes their clothing, as well as an increased...

leads to a paradox known as the Gibbs paradox, after Josiah Willard Gibbs, who proposed this thought experiment in 1874‒1875. The paradox allows for the...

or may not occur. This experiment, viewed this way, is described as a paradox. This thought experiment was devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in...

Thermodynamic temperature, also known as absolute temperature, is a physical quantity which measures temperature starting from absolute zero, the point...

of negative temperature, let alone negative temperature representing "hotter" systems than positive temperature, would seem paradoxical in this interpretation...

from this publication, Kelvin also introduced the heat death paradox (Kelvin's paradox), which challenged the classical concept of an infinitely old...

The air conditioning paradox arises from the usage of air conditioners to adapt to the effects of climate change, leading to higher energy consumption...

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includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a...

paradoxical intention overcoming performance anxiety and facilitating natural sleep, unlike situations where external factors e.g. noise, temperature...