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  2. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    The term paradox is often used to describe a counter-intuitive result. However, some of these paradoxes qualify to fit into the mainstream viewpoint of a paradox, which is a self-contradictory result gained even while properly applying accepted ways of reasoning.

  3. Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Diogenes Laërtius, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. But in a later passage, Laërtius attributes the origin of the paradox to Zeno, explaining that Favorinus disagrees. [3] Modern academics attribute the paradox to Zeno. [1] [2]

  4. Temporal paradox - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Empire of China (1915–1916) - Wikipedia

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    Faced with the increasing number of public opinion groups (i.e., petition groups) claiming to represent public opinion and supporting Yuan Shikai's ascension to the throne, on 6 September, Yuan Shikai sent Yang Shiqi to the Senate Acting Legislative Yuan to read out his opinion: "As the president sees it, reforming the state system, there are ...

  6. The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral - Wikipedia

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    The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (空の境界 第五章 矛盾螺旋, Kara no Kyōkai Dai-Goshō: Mujun Rasen) is a 2008 Japanese animated film produced by ufotable based on The Garden of Sinners novels by Kinoko Nasu. It is the fifth installment in the series, preceded by The Hollow Shrine (2008) and followed by Oblivion Recording (2008).

  7. Grim Reaper paradox - Wikipedia

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    The paradox supposes there is an infinite sequence of Reapers, each assigned a time to kill a particular person. Each Reaper will only kill this person if no earlier Reaper has already killed them. It is 12pm, the first Reaper is set to kill the person at 1pm. The second Reaper is set to kill them at 12:30pm, the third at 12:15pm, and so on.

  8. Paradoxes of the Infinite - Wikipedia

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    Paradoxes of the Infinite (German title: Paradoxien des Unendlichen) is a mathematical work by Bernard Bolzano on the theory of sets.It was published by a friend and student, František Přihonský, in 1851, three years after Bolzano's death.

  9. Starwing Paradox - Wikipedia

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    Starwing Paradox (星と翼のパラドクス, Hoshi to Tsubasa no Paradokusu) is an arcade game by Square Enix with animation produced by Sunrise.In it, humans from Earth remotely pilot giant humanoid mechs as part of a conflict between aliens of two countries on the planet Maguriboshi over the energy resource Hoshinochi.