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Noun Concept
Categories: Critical thinking, Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links, Concepts in epistemology, Articles with short description, Paradoxes
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paradox  antinomy  contradiction  Contrary to intuition  counter-intuitive
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(logic) a statement that contradicts itself WordNet 3.0
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(logic) a statement that contradicts itself WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. Wikipedia
Self-contradictory or counter-intuitive statement or argument. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently-self-contradictory conclusion Wikidata
Statement that contains or implies a contradiction. OmegaWiki
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. Wiktionary
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`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
"This sentence is false" is a paradox. Wiktionary
IS A
contradiction
statement
HAS KIND
prevention paradox
false positive paradox
physical paradox
liar paradox
Milner–Rado paradox
+8 relations
HAS INSTANCE
bumblebee
rebound effect
Penney's game
Mandeville's paradox
Denny's paradox
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CATEGORY DOMAIN
logic
DERIVATION
paradoxical
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
Paradox
HAS QUALITY
contradiction
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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paradox
Wikipedia
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paradox
Wikidata
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paradox
Wiktionary
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paradox
OmegaWiki
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paradox
Wikipedia Redirections
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Contrary to intuition, counter-intuitive, counter-intuitively, counter intuitive, Counter to intuition, Counterintiutive, counterintuitive, Counterintuitively, Erroneous intuitions, falsidical, falsidical paradox, logical paradox, logical paradoxes, Paradoces, PARADOX, paradoxes, paradoxical, paradoxically, Paradoxicalness, Paradoxology, Quine's classification of paradoxes, Self-proving, semantic paradox, Time machine paradox, veridical paradox
Wikidata Alias
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antinomy, contradiction

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