Phrase Hound found 21 phrases and 2 compound words that contain paradoxes. The most common are listed below. Open paradoxes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 21
- potato paradoxesplural of potato paradox: A calculation having a counterintuitive result: "Fred brings home 100 kg of potatoes, which consist of 99% water. He then leaves them outside overnight so that they consist of 98% water. What is their new weight?" …
- paradoxes of toleranceplural of paradox of tolerance: The idea that, if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.
- Zeno's paradoxesplural of Zeno's paradox: Any of a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC) to support Parmenides' doctrine that, contrary to the evidence of one's senses …
- Abilene paradoxesplural of Abilene paradox: The situation where a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that goes against the preferences of many or all of the individuals in the group, because the individuals choose to side with what …
- Arrow paradoxesplural of Arrow paradox: One of Zeno's paradoxes, dealing with the apparent impossibility of an arrow flying through space: if everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest at that instant of time, and if that which is in …
- bootstrap paradoxesplural of bootstrap paradox: A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal …
- clock paradoxesplural of clock paradox: The phenomenon in which two observers who start together with identical clocks, follow different timelines, and then rejoin can have different elapsed times on their clocks, especially if one travels at a …
- grandfather paradoxesplural of grandfather paradox: The paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past.
- Klein paradoxesplural of Klein paradox: A surprising result of applying the Dirac equation to the problem of electron scattering from a potential barrier. In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, electron tunnelling into a barrier is observed, with …
- liar paradoxesplural of liar paradox: A paradox involving statements such as "this sentence is false", or "the following statement is true: the previous statement is false", which cannot be meaningfully regarded as either true or false.
- Petersburg paradoxesplural of Petersburg paradox: Alternative form of St. Petersburg paradox.
- twin paradoxesplural of twin paradox: The clock paradox.
- twins paradoxesplural of twins paradox: The clock paradox.
- causal loop paradoxesplural of causal loop paradox: A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal …
- paradoxes of fictionplural of paradox of fiction: The paradox that (i) people have emotional responses to fictitious events, and (ii) one must believe that something truly exists in order to be emotionally moved by it, but (iii) nobody who considers an event …
- paradoxes of savingplural of paradox of saving: A paradox in which an increase in autonomous saving leads to a decrease in aggregate demand and thus a decrease in gross output which will in turn lower total saving.
- paradoxes of thriftplural of paradox of thrift: A paradox in which an increase in autonomous saving leads to a decrease in aggregate demand and thus a decrease in gross output which will in turn lower total saving.
- Saint Petersburg paradoxesplural of Saint Petersburg paradox: Alternative form of St. Petersburg paradox.
- St. Petersburg paradoxesplural of St. Petersburg paradox
- Epimenides paradoxesplural of Epimenides paradox: A form of self-referential logical paradox associated with statements of the form "All Cretans are liars" (spoken by Epimenedes, himself a Cretan, who must therefore be lying).
- sorites paradoxesplural of sorites paradox: A paradox arising from vague predicates and repeatedly applying a small difference. For example, removing one grain from a heap of sand still leaves a heap, yet removing enough grains will eventually not leave a …
Compound words 2
- counterparadoxesplural of counterparadox: The practice of a therapist instructing the client to do what the client is already doing, to trigger a change in perspective.
- nonparadoxesplural of nonparadox: That which is not a paradox.