Philosophy
- Paradox of analysis: It seems that no conceptual analysis can both meet the requirement of correctness and of informativeness.
- Buridan's bridge: Will Plato throw Socrates into the water or not?
- Paradox of fiction: How people can experience strong emotions from purely fictional things?
- Fitch's paradox: If all truths are knowable, then all truths must in fact be known.
- Paradox of free will: If God knew how we will decide when he created us, how can there be free will?
- Goodman's paradox: Why can induction be used to confirm that things are "green", but not to confirm that things are "grue"?
- Paradox of hedonism: In seeking happiness, one does not find happiness.
- Hutton's Paradox: If asking oneself "Am I dreaming?" in a dream proves that one is, what does it prove in waking life?
- Liberal paradox: "Minimal Liberty" is incompatible with Pareto optimality.
- Meno's paradox (Learning paradox): A man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know.
- Mere addition paradox: Also known as Parfit's paradox: Is a large population living a barely tolerable life better than a small, happy population?
- Moore's paradox: "It's raining, but I don't believe that it is."
- Newcomb's paradox: A paradoxical game between two players, one of whom can predict the actions of the other.
- Paradox of nihilism: Several distinct paradoxes share this name.
- Omnipotence paradox: Can an omnipotent being create a rock too heavy for itself to lift?
- Preface paradox: The author of a book may be justified in believing that all his statements in the book are correct, at the same time believing that at least one of them is incorrect.
- Problem of evil (Epicurean paradox): The existence of evil seems to be incompatible with the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect God.
- Zeno's paradoxes: "You will never reach point B from point A as you must always get half-way there, and half of the half, and half of that half, and so on..." (This is also a paradox of the infinite)
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“You may decry some of these scruples and protest that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosophy. I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.”
—Nelson Goodman (b. 1906)
“My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living in illusion as a goal!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)