Paradoxes
by Cook, Roy T.
Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and belief.
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- Full title :Paradoxes / Roy T. Cook.
Summary
Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and belief.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge [etc.]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2013).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (Text ([viii], 211 p.))
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0745676693 (ebk), 9780745676692, 1299965393 (ebk MiL), 9781299965393, 9780745649436 (hbk), 0745649432 (hbk), 9780745649443 (pbk), 0745649440 (pbk)
- oclc:ocn862726648
- LC Classification:BC199.P2
- Dewey Decimal:165
Table of Contents
The care and feeding of your new paradoxes -- The truth about truth -- The title of this chapter will have its revenge -- Some collections are bigger and badder than others -- Bald, not bald, and kinda bald -- What we know about what we know -- Conclusion: many paradoxes, one solution?
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