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Robert Boyle's self-flowing flask fills itself in this diagram, but perpetual motion machines cannot exist (according to our present understanding of physics).
 
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Paradox and Riddles Summary
5,431 words, approx. 18 pages
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...
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Paradox Summary
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. 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...
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Semantic Antinomy [Grk AntinomíA ‘Conflict Of Laws’] Summary
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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...
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Paradox Summary
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apparently self-contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny. The purpose of a paradox is to arrest attention and provoke fresh thought. The statement “Less is more” is an example. Francis...
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Paradox Summary
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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...
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Performative Antinomy Summary
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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...
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Paradox Summary
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Apparently self-contradictory statement whose underlying meaning is revealed only by careful scrutiny. Its purpose is to arrest attention and provoke fresh thought, as in the statement “Less is more.” In poetry, paradox functions as a...
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Class Paradox Summary
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. see RUSSELL’S...
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Paradox Summary
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