Paradox

Logic is fundamental to thought and language. But which logical principles are correct? The paradoxes play a crucial role in answering that question. The so called Liar and Heap paradoxes challenge our basic ideas about logic; at the very least, they teach us that the correct logical principles are not as obvious as common sense would have it. The essays in this volume, written by leading figures in the field, discuss novel thoughts about the paradoxes.

A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises. Unlike party puzzles or brain teasers, many paradoxes are serious in that they raise serious philosophical problems, and are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. To grapple with them is not merely to engage in an intellectual game, but to come to grips with issues of real import. The second, revised edition of this intriguing book expands and updates the text to take account of new work on the subject. It provides a valuable and accessible introduction to a range of paradoxes and their possible solutions, with questions designed to engage the reader with the arguments and full bibliographical references to both classic and current literature on the topic.

Unexpected hanging paradox - The unexpected hanging paradox is a paradox involving logic. It is alternatively known as the hangman paradox, the fire drill paradox, or the unexpected exam paradox.

Grelling-Nelson paradox - The Grelling-Nelson paradox is a semantic paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson and sometimes mistakenly attributed to German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl. It is thus occasionally called Weyl's paradox, as well as Grelling's paradox.

Paradox of the heap - The paradox of the heap (or the Sorites Paradox, sõros being Greek for "heap" and sõrites the adjective) is a paradox that arises when people apply formal logic to informal concepts which are vague. In this example, "heap" is the generic term which, though meaningful in natural language as an estimation, is provably vague in the context of forming a formal statement based on a definition.

Borel's paradox - Borel's paradox (sometimes known as the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox) is a paradox of probability theory relating to conditional probability density functions.

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