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  • ...evitably result in a system just as complicated. This is an example of the paradox in complexity theory that if you attempt to simplify a system of problems b
    10 KB (1,570 words) - 09:42, 10 December 2023
  • ...e rose to power and committed all his atrocities would cause a Grandfather paradox... Cueball invented the time machine and send Black Hat back because he wan
    10 KB (1,562 words) - 12:34, 16 May 2023
  • ...then arrange for them to fall in love before he ceases to exist due to the paradox of his own parents never having children. An unintended side-effect of the
    4 KB (600 words) - 22:19, 19 January 2024
  • ...st (near {{w|light speed}}) for 74 non-subjective years to return {{w|Twin paradox|without having aged much}}. However, this would not explain why she thinks
    6 KB (1,035 words) - 18:04, 27 February 2024
  • ...ed to correct the text for comic #1153 (to change 'apparent paradox' into 'paradox', since the word means 'apparent contradiction') but the page is locked (I
    277 KB (43,781 words) - 09:03, 12 May 2023
  • ...going on here and how I can fix it?--[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 04:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC) ...Hope everyone else does it as well.--[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 05:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
    177 KB (28,362 words) - 15:24, 24 April 2024
  • ....S., and an unimportant one at that, which pokes fun at the UK, creating a paradox (sort of).
    33 KB (5,254 words) - 20:23, 23 April 2024
  • ...y time they get halfway to Christmas. This is a joke because of {{w|Zeno's paradox}}, which said "Before a moving object can travel a certain distance, it mus
    6 KB (915 words) - 12:47, 28 February 2024
  • ...s that cannot be proved from the axioms. His proof used a self-referential paradox.
    11 KB (1,760 words) - 18:02, 26 December 2023
  • (3) and (4) together form the Russell Paradox. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.170|108.162.219.170]] 18:09, 27 Aug
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  • ...hese "pieces" into two distinct balls both identical to the original. This paradox has been proven for theoretical shapes, but requires infinitely complicated ...nt alternate form of set theory. Since the proof for the Banach–Tarski paradox relies on accepting the axiom of choice, the interviewer is suggesting Cueb
    10 KB (1,676 words) - 17:37, 27 February 2024
  • ...the thing which I find the most “paradoxical” about the Banach-Tarski paradox is that it can’t be done by dividing the ball into only 4 pieces, but thi ...t I believed to be a contradictory statement. The original statement "This paradox has been proven for just about anything... except objects made of atoms, wh
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  • In the title text, [[Randall]] notes a social paradox: that people tend to be disparaging of such inefficient time-wasting while
    3 KB (483 words) - 18:05, 27 February 2024
  • The {{w|Fermi paradox}} is the question of why humans have yet to detect any evidence of extrater There are a number of different theories to explain this apparent paradox, ranging from life (or intelligent life) being rarer than we expect to the
    4 KB (728 words) - 14:21, 20 July 2023
  • See also the {{w|Unexpected hanging paradox|paradox of the "unexpected hanging"}}.
    3 KB (503 words) - 14:28, 14 December 2023
  • The title text is essentially the beginning of the hanging paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox :The unexpected hanging paradox only applies when you have a measure of foreknowledge. [[User:Davidy22|Davi
    8 KB (1,268 words) - 23:30, 31 October 2023
  • ...ing of spatially separated events depend on the observer?}}", or "{{w|Twin paradox|can time run at different rates for different observers?}}". But it doesn'
    4 KB (645 words) - 07:40, 22 October 2022
  • ...also the first link in Philosophy) --[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 09:03, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
    14 KB (2,137 words) - 09:08, 2 April 2024
  • ...st, then it is also specifically an illustration of the {{w|false positive paradox}}: A test that is rarely wrong, but which tests for an event that is even r
    10 KB (1,678 words) - 13:53, 16 May 2023
  • ...ith this property is called the Condorcet winner. Due to the {{w|Condorcet paradox}}, an election with 3 or more candidates might not have a Condorcet winner,
    6 KB (968 words) - 21:56, 15 December 2022

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