PARADOX AND RIDDLES. Although paradoxes can seem enigmatic and riddles paradoxical, they are fundamentally different realities. Riddles are mainly instrumental and performance-oriented, whether used in sacred or secular contexts, whereas paradoxes are...
. Etymologically, ‘against belief’. Full-blooded paradoxes which affect the basis of logic exist when some statement needed for logic can apparently be both proved and disproved. Among them, paradoxes depending on purely logical or...
Contradictory statement(s) whose truth value cannot be determined. Compare, for example, the semantic antinomy from classical times about the (lying) Cretan, who maintained: All Cretans are liars. This statement is true only when it is false. Such a...
Bsm. regards Truth as in Non-duality, and thus beyond the condition of the opposites. Any statement, therefore, is only partially true, its opposite being also partially true. Only in paradox, therefore, taken to its limits, can Truth be, however...
Performative antinomies are the illocutionary counterparts to the propositional (semantic) antinomy in the liar’s statement: This statement is false, which is true only if it is false. Analogously, an order like Don’t obey this order is...
