A paradox (or antinomy) is a statement that appears self-contradictory or contrary to common sense. Scholars believe that the philosopher Zeno wrote his paradoxes around 465 B.C. He probably wrote about forty paradoxes, but only about two hundred words...

. The paradox which arises when we attempt to analyse, say, the concept brother into the concept male sibling. If they are the same concept differently named, no analysis has occurred; if different concepts, how can one analyse the other? Hence the...

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Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides' doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing...

Back in 1984 I wrote about the travails of being a twin -- about how I never got to have my own birthday and how things had recently gotten even worse because, as it happened, Ronald Reagan had also been born on Feb. 6....

SHOWDOWN ON IRAQ Paradoxically, peace protests often lead to more death By MAX BOOT Sunday, March 2, 2003 The signs, ranging from the offensive ("Bush and Blair Wanted for Murder") to the wacky ("Make Tea Not War"), have no doubt...

Provides a discussion of Zeno's Paradoxes and a description of how they work. Gives biographical detail on the life of Zeno of Elea.