The paradox of value, also known as the diamond–water paradox, is the paradox that, although water is on the whole more useful in terms of survival than...

higher proportion of junk DNA. The term "C-value enigma" represents an update of the more common but outdated term "C-value paradox" (Thomas 1971), being...

Petersburg paradox is a situation where a naïve decision criterion that takes only the expected value into account predicts a course of action that presumably...

Figure of speech Paradox of tolerance – Logical paradox in decision-making theory Paradox of value – Contradiction between utility and price Paradoxes of material...

philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that they are lying: for instance...

Labour theory of value Law of value Marginal theory of value Market price Non-extractive economic value Objective theory of value Paradox of value Real versus...

This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list...

The G-value paradox arises from the lack of correlation between the number of protein-coding genes among eukaryotes and their relative biological complexity...

could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian or oppressive practices. The paradox has been widely discussed...

theory of value Marginalism Microeconomics Paradox of value Pareto efficiency Rivalry (economics) Satisfaction paradox Shadow price Theory of value (economics)...

The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the...

the exchange paradox, is a paradox in probability theory. It is of special interest in decision theory and for the Bayesian interpretation of probability...

paradox: "its value for the purchaser is not known until he has the information, but then he has in effect acquired it without cost" Archer's paradox...

The barber paradox is a puzzle derived from Russell's paradox. It was used by Bertrand Russell as an illustration of the paradox, though he attributes...

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

Persons (1984). The paradox identifies the mutual incompatibility of four intuitively compelling assertions about the relative value of populations. Parfit’s...

attempts to assign a classical binary truth value to this statement lead to a contradiction, or paradox. This occurs because if the statement "This sentence...

analyses focus on "truth values", for example by identifying it as paradox of self-reference. Epistemological studies of the paradox instead focus on issues...

Quine's paradox is a paradox concerning truth values, stated by Willard Van Orman Quine. It is related to the liar paradox as a problem, and it purports...

mathematics, Newcomb's paradox, also known as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom is able to predict...

In mathematical logic, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy) is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician...

Fitch's paradox of knowability is a puzzle of epistemic logic. It provides a challenge to the knowability thesis, which states that every truth is, in...

The friendship paradox is the phenomenon first observed by the sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991 that on average, an individual's friends have more friends...

The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent. The paradox arises, for example, if one assumes...

seem to trade for something of equal monetary value and yet, paradoxically, seem at the same time to gain monetary value from the trade. Closer analysis...

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In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby...

contribute to the preparedness paradox. There is a tendency to over-value known short-term costs, as well as to under-value unknown long-term rewards. The...

expected values in any cases not previously considered; they are only useful for infinite expectations. In the case of the St. Petersburg paradox, one has...

Abilene paradox is a collective fallacy, in which a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of most...