What does the word paradox mean?

Answer 1

A paradox (Gk: παράδοξος, "aside belief") is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations, and unstated assumptions underlying known paradoxes has led to significant advances in science, philosophy and mathematics.

The word paradox is often used interchangeably and wrongly with contradiction; but where a contradiction by definition cannot be true, many paradoxes do allow for resolution, though many remain unresolved or only contentiously resolved, such as Curry's paradox. Still more casually, the term is sometimes used for situations that are merely surprising, albeit in a distinctly "logical" manner, such as the Birthday Paradox. This is also the usage in economics, where a paradox is an unintuitive outcome of economic theory.

Answer 2

A paradox (Gk: παράδοξος, "aside belief") is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations, and unstated assumptions underlying known paradoxes has led to significant advances in science, philosophy and mathematics.

Answer 3

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paradox (Gk: παράδοξος, "aside belief") is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations, and unstated assumptions underlying known paradoxes has led to significant advances in science, philosophy and mathematics.

Answer 4

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Answer 6

It's when two things can't be true at the same time, but seem to be.

Free will and predestiny are a paradox. they can't both be true.

Or poor women being told to take care of their children but also work; and can't afford day care for their kids even if they do work at $6/hr.

Or you think god doesn't let you get a divorce but your husband beats you or your kid and god doesn't like that either.

Or a woman who is both ugly and beautiful at the same time.

It's a situation there seems to be no way out of. All ways are blocked and lead back to an unsolvable problem.

seemingly impossible but it happens.

Answer 7

A situation in which the outcome or answer does not have a plausible answer, or contradicts itself.
(examples)
1) There was a barber in a village, who promised to shave everybody, who does not shave himself (or herself).
Can the barber shave himself and keep the mentioned promise?

2) The following inscriptions are on a paper:
Back side
"Inscription on the other side is true"
Face side
"Inscription on the other side is not true"

Answer 8

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Answer 9

A statement that shouldn't make sense but does.

"A contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true."

Answer 10

In short, it is a sentence/phrase/saying that is impossible or contradictory.