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  2. Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia

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    Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened.

  3. Paradox psychology - Wikipedia

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    While the paradoxical method was documented by Adler as early as the 1920s, its counter-intuitive style has always been difficult to explain. Adler once described the method as "spitting in the patient's soup"; meaning that the method had the ability to impact behavior without "convincing or rewarding" the patient to change.

  4. Paradoxes of set theory - Wikipedia

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    Besides the cardinality, which describes the size of a set, ordered sets also form a subject of set theory. The axiom of choice guarantees that every set can be well-ordered, which means that a total order can be imposed on its elements such that every nonempty subset has a first element with respect to that order.

  5. Thought experiment - Wikipedia

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    It illustrates the counter-intuitive implications of Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation when applied to everyday objects. [1] A thought experiment is a hypothetical situation in which a hypothesis, theory, [a] or principle is laid out for the purpose of thinking through its consequences.

  6. Unruh effect - Wikipedia

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    And although the Unruh effect would initially be perceived as counter-intuitive, it makes sense if the word vacuum is interpreted in the following specific way. In quantum field theory , the concept of " vacuum " is not the same as "empty space": Space is filled with the quantized fields that make up the universe .

  7. Potato paradox - Wikipedia

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    The potato paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result.The Universal Book of Mathematics states the problem as such: [1]. Fred brings home 100 kg of potatoes, which (being purely mathematical potatoes) consist of 99% water (being purely mathematical water).

  8. Coin rotation paradox - Wikipedia

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    The outer coin makes two rotations rolling once around the inner coin. The path of a single point on the edge of the moving coin is a cardioid.. The coin rotation paradox is the counter-intuitive math problem that, when one coin is rolled around the rim of another coin of equal size, the moving coin completes not one but two full rotations after going all the way around the stationary coin ...

  9. Intuition - Wikipedia

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    An introverted intuitive type orients by images from the unconscious, ever exploring the psychic world of the archetypes, seeking to perceive the meaning of events, but often having no interest in playing a role in those events and not seeing any connection between the contents of the psychic world and him- or herself. Jung thought that ...