(obviously) contradictions. The term 'Moore's paradox' is attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, who considered the paradox Moore's most important contribution to...
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one interpretation reduces it to Moore's paradox. Some regard it as a "significant problem" for philosophy. The paradox has been described as follows: A...
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indefinable. Critics of Moore's arguments sometimes claim that he is appealing to general puzzles concerning analysis (cf. the paradox of analysis), rather...
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The paradox of analysis (or Langford–Moore paradox) is a paradox that concerns how an analysis can be both correct and informative. The problem was formulated...
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incompatible beliefs. While the preface paradox nullifies a claim contrary to one's belief, it is opposite to Moore's paradox which asserts a claim contrary to...
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addition paradox: (Parfit's paradox) Is a large population living a barely tolerable life better than a small, happy population? Moore's paradox: "It's...
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unknown. Moore's paradox Meno's paradox Müller, Vincent C. W.; Stein, Christian (1996). Epistemic theories of truth: The justifiability paradox investigated...
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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...
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Simpson's paradox is a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the...
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the Social Sciences" was read in the Michaelmas term of 1942, and Moore's paradox was first read in Michaelmas 1944. Almost every major anglophone philosopher...
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peculiar reasoner may seem like a strange psychological phenomenon (see Moore's paradox), a peculiar reasoner is necessarily inaccurate but not necessarily...
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Moravec's paradox is the observation in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires...
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The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a...
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Doxastic voluntarism Expectation (epistemic) Idea Magical thinking Moore's paradox Observer-expectancy effect Opinion Propositional knowledge Self-deception...
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Brief Introduction, Hackett Publishing Company, 2006. ISBN 087220796X. Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person, co-edited...
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Handbook of Metaethics. Routledge. pp. 536–551. Myers, C. Mason (1971). "Moore's Paradox of Analysis". Metaphilosophy. 2 (4): 295–308. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9973...
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raining. +> I believe, and have adequate evidence, that it is raining. Moore's paradox, the observation that the sentence "It is raining, but I don't believe...
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remains on Earth. Moore's biographer Lance Parkin was critical of the run, feeling that it was one of Moore's worst, and that "you feel Moore should be better...
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(1932) with C. I. Lewis. He is also known for introducing the Langford–Moore paradox. After spending his freshman year at the University of Arkansas, Langford...
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In set theory, a field of mathematics, the Burali-Forti paradox demonstrates that constructing "the set of all ordinal numbers" leads to a contradiction...
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The sad clown paradox is the contradictory association, in performers, between comedy and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. For those affected...
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Skolem's paradox is the apparent contradiction that a countable model of first-order set theory could contain an uncountable set. The paradox arises from...
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Mobius M. Mobius (redirect from Mr. Paradox)
Time Variance Authority, including Mr. Tesseract, Mr. Ouroboros, and Mr. Paradox. Mobius appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series Loki (2021–2023)...
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dilemma, the Russian cards problem, the two envelopes problem, Moore's paradox, the hangman paradox, etc. Muddy Children Example: We have two children, A and...
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In set theory, Cantor's paradox states that there is no set of all cardinalities. This is derived from the theorem that there is no greatest cardinal...
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Association. Vol. 59, No. 2 (Nov., 1985), pp. 239-251 “Comments on ‘Moore’s Paradox and Self–Knowledge’,” Philosophical Studies 77 (1995): 229–39. "On...
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Resource curse (redirect from Paradox of Plenty)
The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the hypothesis that countries with an abundance of natural resources...
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Microsoft taketh away," foregoing the metonymy of the original. Jevons paradox Moore's law Wirth's law List of eponymous laws "What Intel Giveth, Microsoft...
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The lek paradox is a conundrum in evolutionary biology that addresses the persistence of genetic variation in male traits within lek mating systems, despite...
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obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox has been...
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