Category: Paradoxes
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The Pinocchio ‘Paradox’
This curious bagatelle is wending its way through the World Wide Web. The cartoon is supposed to be paradoxical in some way. The reader who brought it to my attention writes, "A friend and myself actually debated this at length over lunch, and I argued that at best it is a performative inconsistency. I'm sure…
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The Inconceivable
It is arguable that all religions and salvation-paths point to the Inconceivable and terminate in it if terminus they have. The Nibbana of the Pali Buddhists. The ontologically simple God of Thomas Aquinas. A theory of the Inconceivable would have to show that it is rationally admissible that there be something that cannot be grasped…
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Zeno’s Regressive Dichotomy and the ‘Calculus Solution’
The Regressive Dichotomy is one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion. How can I get from point A, where I am, to point B, where I want to be? It seems I can't get started. A_______1/8_______1/4_______________1/2_________________________________ B To get from A to B, I must go halfway. But to travel halfway, I must first traverse half…