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A paradox is any statement that appears to contradict itself. That includes both actual contradictions such as Russel's paradox and statements that appear to be
by malisper 7y ago
A paradox is any statement that appears to contradict itself. That includes both actual contradictions such as Russel's paradox and statements that appear to be invalid, but have non-obvious valid conclusions like the Monty Hall problem.
This problems falls into the second category. We are given what appears to be a well-defined problem, but when we solve it in different ways, we get different answers. The resolution to the paradox is the problem isn't well defined because your technique for generating randomness will produce different answers.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoBecause of the Principle of Explosion, a contradiction implies any statement. So for people who don't think that everything is meaningless there can't be any true contradictions. This means that in fact every paradox falls into the second class. Paradoxes merely differ in how difficult it is to see the logical flaw that leads to the apparent contradiction.