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- Paradoxes and Dilemmas - Common paradoxes and dilemmas, particularly of the social type: the Voting Paradox, Prisoner's Dilemma, Newcomb's Paradox, Unexpected Hanging, Execution Paradox, and the Self-Amendment Paradox.
- Some Paradoxes - The following paradoxes are described: liar paradox, Zeno paradox, Petersburg paradox and Simpson paradox. With some practical concequences.
- Paradoxes - Brain Teasers - Presents well-known paradoxes, including liar, double liar, barber, and lazy-bones paradox. Also contains sophisms, and short paradoxical sentences from life.
- Paradox or Fallacy - A discussion on paradox, with the goal being to determine what is paradox and what is fallacy.
- Puzzles: Famous Paradoxes - This page offers over 20 fun and weird paradoxes.
- Curry's Paradox - Discussion of a semantic paradox due to Haskell B. Curry; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by J. C. Beall.
- Paradoxes - Homepage maintained by Franz Kiekeben, containing short essays on well-known paradoxes, such as Newcomb's paradox.
- The Epimenides Paradox - An analysis of several attempted resolutions of the Epimenides Paradox (also known as the Liar Paradox), showing how they all fail.
- Wikipdia : Paradoxe de Fermi - O sont les extraterrestres ? Questionnement autour du paradoxe d'Enrico Fermi et tentatives d'lucidation.
- Wikipedia - Fermi Paradox - Encyclopedia article summarizing the concept.
Wikipedia Articles
- Grelling–Nelson paradox - The Grelling–Nelson paradox is a semantic self-referential paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson and sometimes mistakenly attributed to the German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl. It is thus occasionally called Weyl's paradox as well as Grelling's paradox. It is closely analogous to several other well-known paradoxes, in particular ...
- Unexpected hanging paradox - The unexpected hanging paradox is an alleged paradox about a prisoner's response to an unusual death sentence. It is alternatively known as the hangman paradox, the fire drill paradox, or the unexpected exam (or "pop quiz") paradox.
- Paradox of value - The paradox of value (also known as the diamond-water paradox) is the apparent contradiction, or paradox, that although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market. The economist Adam Smith is often considered to be the classic presenter of this paradox.
- Borel's paradox - Borel's paradox (sometimes known as the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox) is a paradox of probability theory relating to conditional probability density functions. The paradox lies in fact that, contrary to intuition, conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations.
- Sorites paradox - The Sorites paradox (σωρός (sōros) being Greek for "heap" and σωρίτης (sōritēs) the adjective) is a paradox that arises from vague predicates. The paradox of the heap is an example of this paradox which arises when one considers a heap of sand, from which grains are individually removed.