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Paradoxes arise due to our descriptions or understanding or theories we use to understand a phenomenon. If we keep this distinction betweeen a phenomenon and it
by raincom 8y ago
Paradoxes arise due to our descriptions or understanding or theories we use to understand a phenomenon. If we keep this distinction betweeen a phenomenon and its description, paradoxes tell us that we don’t understand the phenomenon very well.
The other issue is the theory-laden ness of observations. Every observation is theory laden. Most of the time we don’t even perceive this theory-ladenness because we see them as some atomic facts.
The trick here is to describe the phenomenon at a lower level when paradoxes arise at higher level.