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Inspection paradox: (Bus waiting time paradox) For a given random distribution of bus arrivals, the average rider at a bus stop observes more delays than the average operator of the buses. Lindley's paradox : Tiny errors in the null hypothesis are magnified when large data sets are analyzed, leading to false but highly statistically significant ...
Also known as the ship of Theseus, this is a classical paradox on the first branch of metaphysics, ontology (philosophy of existence and identity). The paradox runs thus: There used to be the great ship of Theseus which was made out of, say, 100 parts. Each part has a single corresponding replacement part in the ship's port.
Aristotle's objection to the arrow paradox was that "Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles." [ 30 ] Thomas Aquinas , commenting on Aristotle's objection, wrote "Instants are not parts of time, for time is not made up of instants any more than a magnitude is made of points, as we ...
Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says—resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing that the present is not changed by a time-traveling qubit. It’s still ...
A bootstrap paradox, also known as an information loop, an information paradox, [6] an ontological paradox, [7] or a "predestination paradox" is a paradox of time travel that occurs when any event, such as an action, information, an object, or a person, ultimately causes itself, as a consequence of either retrocausality or time travel. [8] [9 ...
In the same work in which Popper elucidates the paradox of tolerance, [1] he brings up two closely-related concepts, the "paradox of democracy" and the "paradox of freedom." In the paradox of democracy, he points out the possibility that a democratic majority could vote for a tyrant to rule, thus ending democracy; in the "paradox of freedom ...
Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and of our own capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding.
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. [1] [2] It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true or apparently true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion.