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Preface paradox: The author of a book may be justified in believing that all their statements in the book are correct, at the same time believing that at least one of them is incorrect. Problem of evil : ( Epicurean paradox) The existence of evil seems to be incompatible with the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect God.
Time by William S. Burroughs, with illustrations by Brion Gysin, is a saddle stapled pamphlet described in its publisher's forward as "a book of words and pictures." [1] It is an example of Burroughs' use of the cut-up technique, with which he began experimenting in the fall of 1959. [2]
In the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with a tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 meters, for example. Suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed, one faster than the other. After some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 meters, bringing him to the tortoise's starting ...
Zeno's paradox of an endlessly divisible race track resembles Hui Shi's paradox of an endlessly divided stick. The last statement in particular, "if from a stick a foot long you every day take the half of it, in a myriad ages it will not be exhausted" is notable for its resemblance to the Dichotomy paradox described by Zeno of Elea .
Paradoxes can also take the form of images or other media. For example, M.C. Escher featured perspective-based paradoxes in many of his drawings, with walls that are regarded as floors from other points of view, and staircases that appear to climb endlessly. [14] Informally, the term paradox is often used to describe a counterintuitive result.
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 ...
A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. 2006 2011 Torchwood: Russell T Davies Chris Chibnall Jane Espenson John Fay: Humans and aliens from different periods in time start to come to Earth by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. (Spin-off from Doctor Who ...
The book has been praised by BoingBoing [2] and British newspaper The Independent. [3] Problems and Puzzles mentioned in the book have been discussed and debated several times by several major mathematicians. [4]