The Bedside Book of Paradoxes
Author | : Gary Hayden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Paradox |
ISBN | : 9780857623102 |
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Author | : Gary Hayden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Paradox |
ISBN | : 9780857623102 |
Author | : Jim Al-Khalili |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307986799 |
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds. For example, how can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? Why will Achilles never beat a tortoise in a race, no matter how fast he runs? And how can a person be ten years older than his twin? With elegant explanations that bring the reader inside the mind of those who've developed them, Al-Khalili helps us to see that, in fact, paradoxes can be solved if seen from the right angle. Just as surely as Al-Khalili narrates the enduring fascination of these classic paradoxes, he reveals their underlying logic. In doing so, he brings to life a select group of the most exciting concepts in human knowledge. Paradox is mind-expanding fun.
Author | : Head of German Dictionaries Michael Clark |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134586434 |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Avi Sion |
Publisher | : Avi Sion |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2017-11-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Paradoxes and their Resolutions is Avi Sion’s latest ‘thematic compilation’. It collects in one volume the essays that he has written in the past (over a period of some 27 years) on this subject. It comprises expositions and resolutions of many (though not all) ancient and modern paradoxes, including: the Protagoras-Euathlus paradox (Athens, 5th Cent. BCE), the Liar paradox and the Sorites paradox (both attributed to Eubulides of Miletus, 4th Cent. BCE), Russell’s paradox (UK, 1901) and its derivatives the Barber paradox and the Master Catalogue paradox (also by Russell), Grelling’s paradox (Germany, 1908), Hempel's paradox of confirmation (USA, 1940s), and Goodman’s paradox of prediction (USA, 1955). This volume also presents and comments on some of the antinomic discourse found in some Buddhist texts (namely, in Nagarjuna, India, 2nd Cent. CE; and in the Diamond Sutra, date unknown, but probably in an early century CE).
Author | : Michael Clark |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Paradox |
ISBN | : 9780415228084 |
'This sentence is false'. Is it? If a hotel with an infinite number of rooms is fully occupied, can it still accommodate a new guest? How can we have emotional responses to fiction, when we know that the objects of our emotions do not exist?
Author | : Michael Picard |
Publisher | : Pier 9 |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781743369920 |
THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF PHILOSOPHY will expand your mind, put your neurons through their paces and question the foundations of your opinions and knowledge itself. You'll discover that you can't even trust your own senses - even though they are all you have. Filled with philosophical puzzles that have intrigued the greatest minds, quizzes that reveal the inconsistencies of our ideas, insoluble logical riddles, and moral dilemmas that force us to confront the consequences of our beliefs, THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF PHILOSOPHY will give your intellect a workout that you'll thoroughly enjoy.
Author | : Augustus De Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Circle-squaring |
ISBN | : |