I could read these all day, probably will. Here's a bite-size for you, open up!
Socratic paradox: "I know that I know nothing at all."
Petronius's Paradox: "Practice moderation in all things. Including moderation."
Curry's paradox: "If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists."
Epimenides paradox: A Cretan says: "All Cretans are liars".
Archer's paradox: An archer must, in order to hit his target, not aim directly at it, but slightly to the side.
Olbers' paradox: Why is the night sky black if there is an infinity of stars?
Schrödinger's cat paradox: A quantum paradox — Is the cat alive or dead before we look?
Grandfather paradox: You travel back in time and kill your grandfather before he conceives one of your parents, which precludes your own conception and, therefore, you couldn't go back in time and kill your grandfather.
Hutton's Paradox: If asking oneself "Am I dreaming?" in a dream proves that one is, what does it prove in waking life?
Icarus paradox: Some businesses bring about their own downfall through their own successes.
Paradox of thrift: If everyone saves more money during times of recession, then aggregate demand will fall and will in turn lower total savings in the population.
St. Petersburg paradox: People will only offer a modest fee for a reward of infinite expected value.
Service recovery paradox: Successfully fixing a problem with a defective product may lead to higher consumer satisfaction than in the case where no problem occurred at all.
Diamond-water paradox (or paradox of value) Water is more useful than diamonds, yet is a lot cheaper.
Jevons paradox: Increases in efficiency lead to even larger increases in demand.
Paradox of American Power: At the beginning of the 21st century, the US is as powerful as no nation before it, yet as dependent on the global community as never before.
Stability-instability paradox: When two countries each have nuclear weapons, the probability of a direct war between them greatly decreases, but the probability of minor or indirect conflicts between them increases.
War, war never changes.
Why haven't you picked up the new fallout?!
 Treaking Fypo · Sun Nov 07, 2010 @ 06:30am · 0 Comments |
