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This tag is for arguments that produce an inconsistency with common sense.

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Does the uncertainty principle resolve Zeno’s arrow paradox?

Mazur, Joseph; The motion paradox (New York: Dutton), p. 4-5. … The arrow paradox assumes certainty of both position (stationary) and momentum (none). That premise allows the distances over a range of moments to add up to zero. …
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New riddle of induction; does the observer know the arbitrary time t?

Wikipedia, in "New riddle of induction", sets out Nelson Goodman's paradox as follows: Goodman defined grue relative to an arbitrary but fixed time t as follows: An object is grue if and only if …
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Do Hume’s Problem and Zeno’s Arrow Paradox have the same solution?

Both Hume’s Problem and Zeno’s Arrow Paradox freeze an observation in time. Do they have the same solution? … So do Zeno’s Problem and Hume’s Arrow Paradox have a common solution? …
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