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... 25 KB (2,842 words) - 13:11, 13 April 2024 |
A temporal paradox, time paradox, or time travel paradox, is a paradox, an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the idea of... 28 KB (3,186 words) - 18:19, 19 April 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,259 words) - 12:31, 22 April 2024 |
This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list... 56 KB (7,839 words) - 18:02, 2 May 2024 |
Paradox Interactive AB is a video game publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company started out as the video game division of Target Games and then... 53 KB (4,837 words) - 02:39, 22 April 2024 |
Zeno's paradoxes are a series of philosophical arguments presented by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC), primarily known through... 44 KB (4,787 words) - 03:39, 19 April 2024 |
The no–no paradox is a distinctive paradox belonging to the family of the semantic paradoxes (like the Liar paradox). It derives its name from the fact... 5 KB (723 words) - 03:30, 3 June 2023 |
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... 27 KB (3,748 words) - 05:12, 28 April 2024 |
The sorites paradox (/soʊˈraɪtiːz/; sometimes known as the paradox of the heap) is a paradox that results from vague predicates. A typical formulation... 33 KB (3,920 words) - 01:22, 1 April 2024 |
In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource... 26 KB (2,839 words) - 11:50, 6 April 2024 |
The Cloverfield Paradox is a 2018 American science fiction horror film directed by Julius Onah and written by Oren Uziel, from a story by Uziel and Doug... 37 KB (4,049 words) - 05:55, 15 April 2024 |
The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set-theoretic geometry, which states the following: Given a solid ball in three-dimensional space, there exists... 47 KB (6,697 words) - 17:38, 18 April 2024 |
different paradoxes called Bertrand's paradox or the Bertrand paradox: Bertrand paradox (probability) Bertrand paradox (economics) Bertrand's box paradox Not... 350 bytes (65 words) - 23:22, 22 July 2022 |
Look up paradox in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A paradox is a self-contradictory or counter-intuitive statement or argument. Paradox may also refer... 5 KB (591 words) - 21:20, 5 July 2023 |
The unexpected hanging paradox or surprise test paradox is a paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event which they are told... 14 KB (1,815 words) - 23:17, 17 February 2024 |
Ostrogorski's paradox is a voting paradox studied in social choice theory. The paradox states that if each voter during an election voted for the political... 2 KB (162 words) - 17:07, 15 April 2023 |
In mathematical logic, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy) is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician... 31 KB (4,602 words) - 15:51, 18 April 2024 |
Diaphragmatic paradox or paradoxical diaphragm phenomenon is an abnormal medical sign observed during respiration, in which the diaphragm moves opposite... 3 KB (185 words) - 15:17, 2 January 2024 |
In 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... 31 KB (4,402 words) - 21:03, 28 April 2024 |
In philosophy and mathematics, Newcomb's paradox, also known as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of... 18 KB (2,306 words) - 10:25, 15 April 2024 |
A Killer Paradox (Korean: 살인자ㅇ난감) is a South Korean crime thriller dark comedy television series written by Kim Da-min, directed by Lee Chang-hee, and... 17 KB (1,523 words) - 04:51, 4 May 2024 |
The term Socratic paradox may be used to refer to several seemingly paradoxical claims made by the philosopher Socrates: I know that I know nothing, a... 651 bytes (96 words) - 11:54, 21 November 2021 |
The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the... 23 KB (2,693 words) - 00:20, 28 April 2024 |
Leontief's paradox in economics is that a country with a higher capital per worker has a lower capital/labor ratio in exports than in imports. This econometric... 5 KB (586 words) - 08:46, 17 October 2023 |
Paradox Live is a Japanese media mix project created by Avex Pictures and GCREST. The project features 29 voice actors and is centered on rap battles... 32 KB (3,393 words) - 00:05, 2 March 2024 |
In literature, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions... 10 KB (1,455 words) - 22:35, 18 April 2023 |
Moravec's paradox is the observation in artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little... 11 KB (1,396 words) - 23:32, 13 March 2024 |