What is a Paradox? So according to the Cambridge dictionary, a paradox is “a situation or statement that seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics”. The first idea that pops into one's mind as soon as the word paradox is introduced is like, Quantum physics, breaking laws of nature, one object being at two places at once and etc . But considering the simplicity of its definition many ordinary-seeming sentences can be considered as paradoxes . Now to get an even more clear idea of our topic let's consider a few general characteristics. According to definitions of paradoxes, Paradoxes usually sound reasonable and simple initially. Like “Nobody goes to Murphy’s bar, because it is too crowded”. The sentence has the properties to be a paradox, it contains two opposite fact that the bar is crowded and that nobody goes to the bar. It sounds absurd if nobody is in the bar how can it be crowded! Paradox feels to be true and...
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