Types of Paradoxes

The donkey cannot choose between the two bales and so dies of hunger, which is absurd. The paradox was later thought to constitute a counterexample to Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason, one version of which states that there is an explanation (in the sense of a reason or cause) for every contingent event.

For Fine, “Meno’s Paradox” refers to the conjunction of Meno’s questions and Socrates’ dilemma, but also, more broadly, to “arguments that challenge the possibility of inquiry by focusing on questions about knowing and not knowing” (27).

Whether paradox is the beginning or the end of philosophy, it has certainly stimulated a great deal of philosophical thinking, and many paradoxes have served to encapsulate important philosophical problems (many others have been exposed as fallacies).

Whether paradox is the beginning or the end of philosophy, it has certainly stimulated a great deal of philosophical thinking, and many paradoxes have served to encapsulate important philosophical problems (many others have been exposed as fallacies).

It is still generally called the "liar paradox" although abstraction is made precisely from the liar himself. Trying to assign to this statement, the strengthened liar, a classical binary truth value leads to a contradiction.

The ‘lottery paradox’ is a kind of skeptical argument: that is, it is a kind of argument designed to show that we do not know many of the things we ordinarily take ourselves to know.

As promised, today's blog post is about the Surprise Test Paradox. A quick recap: On Friday, a teacher says to their class that on some day during the next week, there will be a surprise test.

Zeno's paradoxes are a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC) to support Parmenides' doctrine that contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.