At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

The pattern here pictured is clearly not peculiar to Notre Dame: it is simply that the paradox involved in this kind of control of the institution by `` the organization which actually owns '' it, becomes more obvious where there is a larger and more distinguished `` outside '' faculty.

The paradox implicit in the whole affair is shown by the demand of the government, after the conviction, that General Electric sign a wide-open consent decree that it would not reduce prices so low as to compete seriously with its fellows.

The statement also points to a classic paradox: The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another.

The source of this paradox is not difficult to identify.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

Swift also recognizes the implications of such a fact in making mercantilist philosophy a paradox: the wealth of a country is based on the poverty of the majority of its citizens.

One example is the Banach – Tarski paradox which says that it is possible to decompose (" carve up ") the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotations and translations, reassemble the pieces into two solid balls each with the same volume as the original.

For example, the Banach – Tarski paradox is neither provable nor disprovable from ZF alone: it is impossible to construct the required decomposition of the unit ball in ZF, but also impossible to prove there is no such decomposition.

This feature is known as the archer's paradox.

This is related to Cesare Burali-Forti's " paradox " that there can be no greatest ordinal number.

A paradox in metabolism is that, while the vast majority of complex life on Earth requires oxygen for its existence, oxygen is a highly reactive molecule that damages living organisms by producing reactive oxygen species.

If nature cannot err, then there are no paradoxes in it ; to Hobbes, the paradox is a form of the absurd, which is inconsistency: " Natural sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity " and " For error is but a deception ...

In astrophysics and physical cosmology, Olbers ' paradox, named after the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and also called the " dark night sky paradox ", is the argument that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe.

Thus, Olbers ' paradox can not decide between a finite ( e. g. some variants of the Big Bang model ) and an infinite ( Steady State theory or static universe ) solution.

Olbers ' paradox, described by him in 1823 ( and then reformulated in 1826 ), states that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the supposition of an infinite and eternal static universe.

The emphasis was not static but changed over time: Osho revelled in paradox and contradiction, making his work difficult to summarise.

Two of these paradoxes include the self-deceiver's state of mind and the dynamics of self-deception, coined the " static " paradox and the " dynamic / strategic " paradox, respectively.

Mele formulates an example of the " static " paradox as the following:

These models call into question how one can simultaneously hold contradictory beliefs (" static " paradox ) and deceive oneself without rendering one's intentions ineffective (" dynamic / strategic " paradox ).

were explicit in their recognition of the apparent paradox that while static scoring would suggest a change in taxes will produce revenue change commensurate with the tax, in reality revenue tends to change in the opposite direction, due to the response of those affected.

Realizing the paradox, Zeus turns both creatures into static stars.

According to Harrison, the first to conceive of anything like the paradox was Thomas Digges, who was also the first to expound the Copernican system in English and may have been the first to postulate an infinite universe with infinitely many stars.

In general relativity theory, it is still possible for the paradox to hold in a finite universe: though the sky would not be infinitely bright, every point in the sky would still be like the surface of a star.

A consequence to which also introduces another paradox showing how creation would thus be an impossible action to where an omniscient entity could only infinitely know everything with the inability to create or alter anything in or of existence.

Thus the paradox of creating new information, information itself, or creating existence itself and an information system such as a cognitive system into existence from a position of infinitely knowing, becomes a self-refuting argument and defies the listed " omni " attributes.

These cases demonstrate a paradox not in the sense that they demonstrate a logical contradiction, but in the sense that they demonstrate a counter-intuitive result that is provably true: the situations " there is a guest to every room " and " no more guests can be accommodated " are not equivalent when there are infinitely many rooms ( an analogous situation is presented in Cantor's diagonal proof ).

He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances ; he was also first to postulate the " dark night sky paradox ".

The infinitely density | dense gravitational singularity found as time approaches an initial point in the Big Bang universe is an example of a physical paradox.

Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz explained the apparent paradox of his position by citing the old question, " Can God create a rock so heavy that He cannot pick it up?

When he asked Rubinstein to reconcile this paradox, Rubinstein answered, as many teachers have through the ages, " When you are as old as I am, you may do as I do.

This paradox can be reconstructed for a variety of predicates, for example, with " tall ", " rich ", " old ", " blue ," " bald ," and so on.

In addition to the " paradox of youth ", there is also a " conundrum of old age " associated with the distribution of the old stars at the Galactic Center.

This condition is reproduced in modern quantum mechanics, but in the era of the old quantum theory it led to a paradox: how can the orientation of the angular momentum relative to the arbitrarily chosen z-axis be quantized?

The old colonial brothels in a moderate Muslim country is a paradox, involving prostitution, drugs and crimes.

It is a paradox of the old system that when the political class finally decided to accept reform, the electoral system they had denounced for decades as unrepresentative readily allowed them to do so.

The first aspect of the paradox, " the argument by scale ", is a function of the raw numbers involved: there are an estimated 200 – 400 billion ( 2 – 4 × 10 < sup > 11 </ sup >) stars in the Milky Way and 70 sextillion ( 7 × 10 < sup > 22 </ sup >) in the visible universe.

Which is to say: as much as we might try to order our world with a certain set of norms and goals ( which we consider our real world ), the paradox of a finite consciousness in an infinite universe creates a zone of irreality (" that which is beyond the real ") that offsets, opposes, or threatens the real world of the human subject.

They both postulated that if the stars in the universe were distributed in a hierarchical fractal cosmology ( e. g., similar to Cantor dust )— the average density of any region diminishes as the region considered increases — it would not be necessary to rely on the Big Bang theory to explain Olbers ' paradox.

Possible explanations for the paradox suggest, for example, that while simple life may well be abundant in the universe, intelligent life may be exceedingly rare.

However, greatly improved distance measurements to globular clusters using the Hipparcos satellite and increasingly accurate measurements of the Hubble constant resolved the paradox, giving an age for the universe of about 13 billion years and an age for the oldest stars of a few hundred million years less.

Some science fiction stories suggest that any paradox would destroy the universe, or at least the parts of space and time affected by the paradox.

* 1848 — Edgar Allan Poe offers first correct solution to Olbers ' paradox in Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay that also suggests the expansion and collapse of the universe

The Steady State model proposed that this radiation could be accounted for by so-called " integrated starlight " which was a background caused in part by Olbers ' paradox in an infinite universe.

Stefan Pernar argues along the lines of Meno's paradox against the usefulness of Yudkowsky's approach by pointing out that attempting to solve the FAI problem is either pointless or hopeless depending on whether one assumes a universe that exhibits moral realism or not.

Chéseaux was among the first to state, in its modern form, what would later be known as Olbers ' paradox ( that, if the universe is infinite, the night sky should be bright ).

In an attempt to resolve the paradox, a Superman / Legion story was crafted, explaining that a version of the Silver Age Superboy ( and all his supporting characters, including Pete Ross ) inhabited a " pocket universe " created by the Time Trapper, and that the Trapper had protected this universe from being destroyed in the Crisis.

This paradox creates an alternate universe and forever ends the contact with the original 1998.

So if he kills " his " grandfather, a paradox would not occur because the grandfather that he had killed is not the grandfather who lives in the universe he currently is in.

Two events would merge into the nearest event which does not produce a paradox ( a dead grandfather in one universe but not in another would either create a dead grandfather in both universes, but alter the person's heritage so as to allow this, merge both timelines so that the person would fade from all timelines upon return, or produce a mean between life and death such as a coma ).

This theory states that any paradox would cause the destruction of a universe, or at least the part of the time & space affected by the paradox.