Welcome to ZENO'S COFFEEHOUSE (Since 1994) Zeno of Elea, a pre-Socratic philosopher, was born about 490 B.C. His style of argument was to assume, provisionally, the position of the opponent, and then to derive impossible conclusions from it, thus establishing the absurdity of the assumption. In the spirit of this Reductio Ad Absurdum dialectical approach to critical thinking, our Coffeehouse ...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Russell's Paradox Russell's paradox is the most famous of the logical or set-theoretical paradoxes. The paradox arises within naive set theory by considering the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. Such a set appears to be a member of itself if ...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Sorites Paradox The sorites paradox is the name given to a class of paradoxical arguments, also known as little-by-little arguments, which arise as a result of the indeterminacy surrounding limits of application of the predicates involved. For example the ...

Zeno's classic paradox, from the Platonic Realms Interactive Math Encyclopedia.

Some paradoxes ...

The Berry Paradox G. J. Chaitin, IBM Research Division, P. O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, chaitin@watson.ibm.com Complexity 1:1 (1995), pp. 26-30 Lecture given Wednesday 27 October 1993 at a Physics - Computer Science Colloquium at the University of New Mexico. The lecture was videotaped; this is an edited transcript. It also incorporates remarks made at the Limits to Scientific ...

An essay with links to related material on common paradoxes and dilemmas, particularly of the social type. Included are the Voting Paradox, Prisoner's Dilemma, Newcomb's Paradox, Unexpected hanging, Execution Paradox, Ambiguity, and Ethics ...

SOME ENDEAVOURS AT SYNTHESISING A SOLUTION TO THE SORITES Shane Ralston Puzzles , word games , logical anomalies , whatever we call them, they perplex us and challenge our familiar patterns of reasoning. One of these puzzles, among many others, originated from the mind of an ancient Megarian logician, Eubulides of Miletus, and endures to the modern day.1 Its name, sorites , can be traced to ...

The Epimenides Paradox I read about the Epimenides Paradox in Douglas Hofstadter's fascinating Goedel, Escher, Bach. Consider Statement A. Statement A: Statement A is not true. Is Statement A true Statement A is not true. Argument 1 explains why. Argument 1: SUPPOSE Statement A is true. Then the proposition that Statement A states is true. But Statement A states that Statement A is not true.