Paradox and Antithesis

The time-traveling grandma-killer.

Suppose you build a time machine, go back in time to find your grandmother when she was three years old, and then drown her in the bathtub.

So she never grows up, and never has any kids.

Therefore, one of your parents was never born.

Therefore, YOU were never born.

Therefore, you never traveled back in time and killed your infant grandma.

So she DID grow up and have kids.

Therefore, your parent WAS born.

Therefore, YOU were born.

Therefore, you traveled back in time and killed your infant grandma.

Ad infinitum.

[Paradoxes are really hard to understand]

Jiwon Park, 5th grader
"I know that I know nothing"

"Drugs--the higher you get, the further they drag you down."
The information paradox has to do with black holes and were the sucked in material goes. Search Steven Hawking information paradox to learn more

A Good Example of a paradox

You walk up to the bridge protector and ask for passage. He says for asking you will die. Then after a moment he says, "if you say a true statement i will choke you to death, if you say a false statement then i will drown you to death. Your choice. The young adventurer calmly replies, "You will drown me to death.

The man doesn't know what to because if he drowns the man then its a true statement and he should have choked him. If he where to choke the man then the statement would have been false and he should have drowned the man.
you can not win for loosing or maybe the silence is so loud.
An example of a paradox might include "Nobody goes to that restaurant because it is too crowded." It is a paradox because both no one and everyone are at the restaurant. A jumbo shrimp and bittersweet are also examples of paradoxes.
There are many kinds and definitions of paradoxes, and many are variations of others. The most famous is Russel's Paradox, which revolutionised logic and set theory.

Russel's: Does the set of sets that don't contain themselves contain itself?

Barber: The barber shaves men who do not shave themselves. Who shaves him?

Liar's: "My fellow citizens, I am now lying to you"

Coastline: The smaller the ruler, the longer an island's coast is.

Arrow information: You need to understand the info you're buying before you buy it.

...and many more. There are economic, political, topological, and even astronomical paradoxes that are actually quite entertaining.
go back in time and kill your mother, then you would not exist anymore, but then your mom wouldn't be dead, then you would exist and kill your mother, ect.

Also, Banach - Tarski Paradox states that you can have a 3-D sphere and you divide it up into 5 pieces. You rearrange them and you will get 2 balls identical with the original.

Unlike the first one, this one is not contradictory. It's a paradox because it betrays basic intuition and logic (or "common sense") on volume, but who said this sphere have volume, or dimension for that matter?
There is the well-known French paradox:

French diet consists of fattening foods (cheese, butter), and yet they never seem to gain weight.

Paradox of Choice:

The more options you have, the less happy you will be with the choices you make.

A paradox is, in essence, a phrase that contradicts itself and in the end can't be solved.

eg. What would happen if pinnoccio said, "I'm lying"?

if he was lying then his statement (I'm lying) would be true

if he was telling the truth then his statement would instead be false.

eg2 Don't go near the water until you've learned to swim.

this would mean the person could never go near water, because the only way to learn to swim is to get in, but you cant because you dont know how to swim.

An oxymoron is a statement that contains 2 neighbouring contradictory words

eg. awfully good

act naturally

open secret

seriously funny

alone together

Democracy implies that every single citizen gets a "voice" and/or a vote, however due to the large population it would be impossible for everyone to have a voice for every single issue (this would simply slow down the voting process and little would ever get done), instead democracy is more of a republic with people being "represented" by those who share their same ideals.

Also, as "irony" means that the result is opposite to what the original expressed idea explicitly stated, not only is the fact that the United States was specifically NOT designed as a pure democracy (but, rather as a representative republic), but also the fact that virtually all democracies are explicitly designed to prevent absolute majority rule, which is what a true democracy means. That is, as a true democracy means the rule of the majority of citizens, all modern democratic political systems instead have designed-in limitations preventing the majority from having absolute power. The irony here is that small numbers of people (e.g. the US Supreme Court) can block attempts by the majority (even a vast majority) of citizens to take certain actions (in particular, modern democracies protect the rights of minorities from the actions of majorities). This is a Good Thing, though ironic.

In the case of the United States, the original Constitution (including the Bill of Rights) has several ironies (i.e. places where the design of the government contradicts the idea of a pure or representative democracy):

• Leaving aside the fact that it is NOT a pure democracy, but rather a representative democracy, the original Constitution only allows for direct election of members of the House of Representatives. The US Senate was appointed, and very much designed to be similar to the UK's aristocratic House of Lords. Also, the US President was not be to directly elected (and, still isn't), rather the Electoral College was used as an indirect method, one which was only marginally obligated to follow voter's desires.
• Almost 75% of the total population was excluded from voting: Native Americans, non-whites (specifically, slaves, but in practice, many non-white free men), women, and everyone under at least 21 (plus, many states had landholding or wealth requirements).
• Immigrants were explicitly excluded from attaining the highest office (US President). Only original citizens were allowed to be President, not naturalized ones. This stricture remains to this day.
• Large chunks of the Executive and Judicial branches were designed in a manner which insulates or removes them from direct voter approval, and much from even indirect voter approval.
• No mechanism for leaving the United States exists, which, presumably for a Federation of individual sovereign states, should exist in a real democracy

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