Examples of a paradox?...

[Euronymous]

Does anyone here have an example of a paradox?

My example of a paradox is:

"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't."

What's your examples of a paradox?

 

[ImmortalFlame]

I like it when commonly used sayings have messages that completely contradict each other. For example:

"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush" vs "Nothing ventured, nothing gained".

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Does anyone here have an example of a paradox?

My example of a paradox is:

"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't."

What's your examples of a paradox?

I've ridden the crest of a paradox. It was damned if I do and damned if I didn't on either side.

p.s. I was married then.

 

[Sunstone]

It seems to me something of a paradox that our species is intelligent enough to routinely get itself into fixes it isn't intelligent enough to get out of. That's probably more ironic than truly paradoxical, though.

 

[Euronymous]

"I can resist anything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde

 

[Sha'irullah]

Military Intelligence. Not even government can solve that one.

 

[Sunstone]

Is it a true paradox that (usually) the more you know, the less certain you are that you know?

 

[Euronymous]

Here's another example of a paradox:

Spoiler: It's about boxing

 

[Augustus]

You can't be rational unless you acknowledge your own irrationality

 

[Hildeburh]

I have two favorites:

“All generalizations are false, including this one.” Albert Einstein

And

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Plato

 

[Augustus]

Here's another example of a paradox:

Because they used to fight in a ring, sort of like what sumo wrestlers do now.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

"When less and less is done, more is achieved." -Laotzu

 

[sandy whitelinger]

This sentence is false.

 

[Euronymous]

Their are two thing wrong with this sentence.

 

[Grandliseur]

Does anyone here have an example of a paradox?

My example of a paradox is:

"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't."

What's your examples of a paradox?

Well, you didn't ask for sentences, so here is imo one big one: water.
Water becomes denser until freezing after which it becomes less dense. I think this is a paradox, one that permits life on the planet. Another one, is how hot water freezes faster than cold.

There may be other such paradoxes. A physicist might be able to tell the following, but the fact that matter also is energy, but remains in its matter state has to be a paradox so as to be bound in this condition, so as not to be 'volatile.' (?)

 

[Kuzcotopia]

When you accidentslly use Doc Brown's time machine, and end up back in time. You meet your parents, and your mother accidentally falls in love with you instead of your father.

Through your actions, you accidentally may cause your own lack of existence. But if that happens, then how could you break up your paren's relationship in the first place?

That's a paradox.

And mullets. Mullets are a paradox. They seems cool, but their not when you have one.

 

[Aldrnari]

Paradoxes? Meh... I could care less.

 

[pearl]

'It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

 

[Polymath257]

A. Sentence B is true.
B. Sentence A is false.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

My example of a paradox is:

"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't."

What's your examples of a paradox?

Certainly not ^ this ...

... and there is absolutely nothing paradoxical about the observation that some folks would benefit from understanding what the term means before offering examples.
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But don't let it bother you: everything I've written here is false.