70 Paradox Examples That Will Mess With Your Mind

I am trying to decide on which sofa I want for my living room, I have been changing my mind for a year because there is too many options to choose from. I can't even decide on which company to go with.

More on the subject: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice

So I'm RATIONAL; Not INDECISIVE!!!

Having worked in real estate and handled many many many legal documents like deeds, mortgages, and powers of attorney, the reason why this is done is to prevent bad actors from altering an original document after it's been executed.

"Wasting paper is cool"

"Nothing to see here, move on"

From what I understand the paradox is that the only way to prove you're unfit is to WANT to go to the battlefield because no sane person would. But if you want to go then they'll just let you.

It will not grow, because the nose knows that him saying it will then grow would be a lie and cause it to grow, canceling the lie.

It is bi-logical, it goes both ways

I mean... "Hetero" means other, or 1 of 2. And Logical... I mean... Sooo....

you need to tell this to chatgpt

This is perhaps the paradox to end all paradoxes. Kurt Godel encoded this as a mathematical expression, and published a paper on it. It was a Trojan Horse designed to p**s of the mathematicians. He succeeded in thoroughly and completely destroying the field of mathematics forever. He proved that maths can never be proved. It requires an act of faith. LOL

A single grain < a couple grains < a few grains < a handful of grains < a heap of grains 🤷🏼‍♂️

But the removed grains form a different heap unless you magically disappear them.

There was never a heap to begin with. This "not-a-parodox" is reminding us that our definitions are arbitrary. The map is not the terrain. The word is not the thing. The thing is not a word. Truth is unspeakable. The moment it is spoken, it becomes an abstraction. Just like the map is not the terrain. The abstraction is not the truth. Therefor the truth can never be spoken

This isn't a paradox. One of the two is false. The paradox looks like this: 1. Statement 2 is false. 2. Statement 1 is true.

Usually you need a 'third' statement to solve anything including the paradox.

This is not a paradox. If you said focusing less means you can focus more then that would be a paradox. But focusing is not the same as performing a task. They are two different things.

Surely this depends on the task. For example focusing on music while performing cardio vs trying to do admin or a math equation.

Doesn't take time into account. Humans have only had radios for about a hundred and thirty years, so anything outside about a radius of 130 light years from Earth has no way of knowing we're here. By the same token, there's no kind of guarantee that the short time we've been able to detect incoming signals would overlap with the broadcast period of any other intelligent species.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

We may already have proof. The fact that the Pentagon was so eager to show us the 'tictac' video might suggest that they have something more to say on the matter. If I worked at the Pentagon, I would show the world some amazing footage of a non-threatening UAP, filmed by a reliable witness and then sit back and assess how the world reacts. There was no martial law or looting, just a world watching in amazement, which was the best reaction possible. Now they can trust us, maybe they'll feel confident enough to take it a step further.

Honestly? All this means is that none of those other "intelligent lifeforms" has yet made it into our (extremely limited, by NASA's own admission) detection range. And since we have not yet traveled beyond our own solar system, and our system is admittedly just one of several quadrillion in our galaxy, how do we know whether or not we're the only ones out there. There could be dozens, if not hundreds of thousands, of other planets where their scientists are having the same discussions and ponderings.

How do you know we haven't discovered anything? Simply because it's not been announced?

This isn't a paradox at all if you understand contract law in the US even remotely. Nothing was due, so there's no breach, and it wouldn't even make it in. The injury has to happen before the suit

There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

And an intelligent person will always enquire within.

I’d have thought the paradox was calling it an “elevator” when it’s actually descending.

Every measurement will be different, as the sea level rises and falls, and the terrain erodes, even space itself is expanding and contracting. Boundaries are mental constructs, they do not exist. The entire universe is a single indivisible thing. There are no boundaries

Also known as Trigger's Broom.

My grandfather's axe...

Yes, in terms of model. For example, a model of an airplane would be the same in model terms (size, shape, type of material). In terms of deeper thought, it wouldn't be the EXACT same because of wear and tear (a boat that has aged wood would be different than a brand-new boat). If it's called the same name, would it be considered the same thing? Depends...