5 ms·
This may be true, but if it is the canadian journal of philosophy is doing their reputation no favors by publishing the "answering machine paradox". Paradox. Pa
by vsuperpower2020 2y ago
This may be true, but if it is the canadian journal of philosophy is doing their reputation no favors by publishing the "answering machine paradox". Paradox. Paradox. That's a funny word, isn't it? Paradox.
- djur 2y agoA paradox is just a statement that is self-contradictory. It doesn't mean a difficult or mind-bending problem as it is sometimes used colloquially.
- Joker_vD 2y agoNo, that's pretty much what the word "paradox" used to mean, but logicians of the late XIX–early XX century had hijacked it. PARADOX, in philoſophy, a propoſition ſeemingly abſurd, as being contrary to to ſome received opinion, but yet true in fact. No ſcience abounds more with paradoxes than geome- try: thus, that a right line ſhould continually approach to the hyperbola, and yet never reach it, is a true para- dox; and in the ſame manner, a ſpiral may continually approach to the point, and yet not reach it, in any number of revolutions, however great. Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1771, Vol. 3, p. 455