Ucb Du 2012

Some paradoxes - an anthology


God is not all-powerful as he cannot build a wall he cannot jump


|Contents  |
|According to Chambers |
|Catch-22 |
|Aparadoxical notice |
|Some proofs: |
|Happiness or a ham sandwich? |
|Proof that either Tweedledum or Tweedledee exists |
|Proof that Tweedledoo exists|
|Proofs that Santa Claus exists |
|Proof that there exists a unicorn |
|Proof that you are either conceited or inconsistent |
|Proof that I am Dracula|
|Liars and truthtellers: |
|Epimenides the Cretan |
|The liar paradox |
|Hanging or beheading|
|Knights and knaves |
|The visiting logician |
|Cellini and Bellini |
|Quine's paradox -' Yields a falsehood when appended to its quotation' ||Infinity: |
|Hilbert's hotel paradox |
|Infinite income-tax |
|Schrödinger's cat |
|Olbers' paradox -why is the night sky dark? |
|The unexpected hanging |
|The surprise examination |
|Prediction paradox - Newcomb's problem |
|Hempel's ravens (the confirmationparadox) |
|Nelson Goodman's "grue" paradox |
|The barber paradox |
|"Interesting" and "uninteresting" numbers |
|Russell's paradox of classes|
|Grelling's paradox - autological and heterological |
|Berry's paradox - the least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables |
|Two of Zeno's paradoxes |
|Achilles and the tortoise|
|Paradox of the arrow |
|The ship of Theseus |
|Protagoras's pupil |
|Sorites paradox (paradox of the heap) |
|Escher:...