{"id":4097,"date":"2018-11-14T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/paradox-and-contradiction\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:32:52","slug":"paradox-and-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/paradox-and-contradiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox and Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">A form of words can be paradoxical but not contradictory, e.g., &quot;Most people want to <em>become<\/em> old, but few want to <em>be<\/em> old.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The expression is paradoxical, and therein lies its literary charm, but the thought is non-contradictory. The thought, expressed non-paradoxically, is: Most want to live a long time, but few if any want to suffer the decrepitude attendant upon living a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">One logic lesson to be drawn is that a paradox is not the same as a contradiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It is therefore a mistake to refer to Russell&#39;s Antinomy as &#39;Russell&#39;s Paradox.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Thus spoke the Language Nazi.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A form of words can be paradoxical but not contradictory, e.g., &quot;Most people want to become old, but few want to be old.&quot; The expression is paradoxical, and therein lies its literary charm, but the thought is non-contradictory. The thought, expressed non-paradoxically, is: Most want to live a long time, but few if any want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/paradox-and-contradiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paradox and Contradiction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-logica-docens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}