Perplexing Paradoxes!!
The link below takes you a very interesting site that explains paradoxes and gives several examples of these logic conundrums. I think you will find these fascinating!!! Visit the site and tell us what you think. Are you perplexed? Do you understand? What is your favorite? Which one drives you insane?????
posted by Ms Watt @ 8:58 PM
23 Comments:
I did not understand Achilles and the Tortoise. Iet just doesn't make sense. I enjoyed the Heap one.
that was so cool! I enjoyed all of them-especailly the problem of the serious present for concept of time has always bewitched me.
enjoyed them all. i have heard everyone of them except for the liar one. that one was interesting.
the liar one was interesting-just last week I told a big lie to my mom but after like 20 mins of enduring guilt I decided that my lie's prupose was not "good" as I had wanted it to be. So I revealed to my mom that I lied. She beleived me because I'm not a "regular liar." I wonder if she'd beleive me if I was a professional liar...
Achilles and the Tortoise doesn't make sense now that I think of it. I mean I've been given a head start by my friends in races at recess many times(I'm a slow person) but they always catch up to me. Perhaps it is because I'm not good at accelerating...
That is the exact same for me. I am slow and I always lose
The paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise is actually one of the famous "Zeno's Paradoxes" (by the way, General S., Zeno was a contemporary of Socrates - check out wikipedia!!) and if you believe Zeno's logic, both of you would be winning more races!!!
another paradox by Zeno:
"… if everything that exists has a place, place too will have a place, and so on ad infinitum"
Philosophers are such interesting people.
i you two just had the zeno attitude , you'd be winning more races!
Achilles and the Tortoise makes sence...but it doesn't. It just is.
A Liar, Sapphire! Fire and Brimstoen for you! :)
In a sense, the paradoxes work... but based on genral, vague assumptions. A careful eyes sees through them. Read them again.
Rocking On,
Postman Craig
ok.
I liked the liar one-the tortoise one didn't really make sense though-because If the second person could travel faster, couldn't they gain ground and eventually catch up??? Anyways, fun to read!!
that's wat i think too! about the turtoise one i mean.
Correct. These Paradoxes don't take into account all factors regarding the subject. That's what makes a paradox work.
Rocking On,
Postman Craig
Even so they're really cool...a different veiw. I like the heap one. I've often thought about things like that. How many stiches does it take for a blanket to be a blanket? How many days away is close? WHen you're srawing an angle on a geometry test...If they accept one degree away, why won't they accept two??
drawing an angle...sorry
u're right...one of my friends recently got a 78.5 or soemthing and so she couldn't not achieve the award or whatever she wanted for it was required for her to geta 79.
I am perplexed
Amusing as they are , they are deeply flawed. for example, the universal nihilism or specious present is all based on constructed ideas of what it takes for something to exist or not. As craig said, a keen eye can see that these are mostly flawed logic.
cantaloupe I never exactly figured out who u are! Which class were u in? Wed. or Tues.?
oh wait. actually i know who u r. ur in tuesday and ur name starts with k.
i agree with ur comment by the way.
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