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A 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.
by djur 2y ago
A 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