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This tag is for arguments that produce an inconsistency with common sense.
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Irresistible force paradox as an inconsistent formal theory
... show that this system of axioms is in fact inconsistent because it is impossible to find a model that satisfies the axioms?
No: there is no problem with the model (the metaphysical perspective): …
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What qualifies as the solving of a paradox?
"Solving a paradox" is an oxymoron. Paradoxes are logical contradictions which are not meant to be solved, but present logical challenges. For example, This sentence is false. … If a logical set is not contradictory("solving a paradox") , then it is an assertion. For example, this sentence is true is not a paradox, does not offer any logical challenge and is not interesting. …
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Paradox of compromise illustrated by neighbours painting houses
Your interpretation is wrong. Living entities group in order to increase the probabilities of survival, at the price of losing some advantages available if living alone.
So, both persons on your exam …
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Limitless Space
You are trying to thingify space. By thingifying space, you are giving thing attributes to a phenomenon we don't know and don't understand at all. By doing so, you expect it to have or lack of limits, …
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What is the meat paradox?
There is no necessity for a solution because there is no paradox. … This falsely called "paradox" is just a misinterpreted and biased statement, sustained by fallacies and political arguments:
how can individuals care about animals, but also eat them
It is viced with …
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How it's possible to describe something if description itself is action that changes universe?
This is not a paradox, it's just the way the mind works. But it is certainly a fallacy, I would call it fallacy of statism: things are perceived as being static, but they are in constant change. …
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Cause and Effect - Finished infinity
This is an ill-posed question. When you refer to infinity ("an infinite number of causes or effects"), you are implying accountability, and that's not a physical fact, but a fact related with our huma …
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