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That's what "paradox" is: when a simple model or explanation seems to show a contradiction, and a more sophisticated model is needed to understand the situation
by Evbn 14y ago
That's what "paradox" is: when a simple model or explanation seems to show a contradiction, and a more sophisticated model is needed to understand the situation.
- Dylan16807 14y agoBut in this case the 'simple model' is less 'simple' and more 'misleading'. Something should be a paradox without trickery. Someone hiding invalid division to make 1=2 is not a paradox. "Set of sets that don't contain themselves" is a paradox.