The Paradox Game

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Rules are simple, post a paradox, and the person below you will solve it.

I'll start. An unstoppable force hits an immovable object, what happens?
 
The Joker is arrested, Harvey Dent turns evil, and Batman retires.

Naaaaaah.

The object and the force do not react to one another, rather, the force goes through the object and continues at full strength while the object stays still.

New paradox: ...I've got nothing. Someone else can post one.
 
If a tree falls in the wood and nobody is around to hear it does it still squash the little hobbits who lived below it?

Also, your idea is flawed. A paradoxical question cannot be solved. That is entirely why they are what they are. End of game.

Paradoxes aren't all riddles, you know. It's not easy to just think of a paradox as they usually present themselves through deep investigation into a certain subject; science, philosophy, phycology....

Here's my favourite: Everything I say is a lie.
 
It was a lie because you spoke the truth. You speak both truths and lies.


Paradox: What colour is a perfect mirror?
 
But how would you know my statement to be truth when I've just said that everything I say is not the truth?
If everything you say is a lie, that statement was true, but you just broke that statement by telling the truth.
 
The Joker is arrested, Harvey Dent turns evil, and Batman retires.

Naaaaaah.

The object and the force do not react to one another, rather, the force goes through the object and continues at full strength while the object stays still.

New paradox: ...I've got nothing. Someone else can post one.
You solved that one quicker than my family did! :lol:
 
I think you're missing the point. :lol: ;)

The point is that you misstated the paradox. The simplest variant is the statement "this sentence is false".

It is possible to parse your sentence in a way that is logically consistent (namely, you sometimes lie and that sentence was one of the lies), therefore it is not a paradox. A paradox has no way in which it can be interpreted which is logically consistent.
 
Everything I say is a lie.

So that statement must also be a lie, right? Because I said it. But how can you know it's a lie when I've just admitted everything I say is a lie?

Like you say, a paradox is meant to be nonsensical. What I was getting at before is that there is no solving a paradox and therefore no game to really be played here.

Riddles, yes. Paradox, no.
 
Everything I say is a lie.

So that statement must also be a lie, right? Because I said it. But how can you know it's a lie when I've just admitted everything I say is a lie?

Like you say, a paradox is meant to be nonsensical. What I was getting at before is that there is no solving a paradox and therefore no game to really be played here.

Riddles, yes. Paradox, no.

Let us be absolutely clear, what are you presenting this statement as? An example of a riddle, or an example of a paradox?
 
It's a paradox. Clearly.

What I meant in the previous post is this thread would be more sites to being a riddle game which has for more possibility to entertain rather than a thread full of paradoxes which will just serve to be a place for just that.
 
It's a paradox. Clearly.

Then I'm still disagreeing. It is not a paradox. It can be logically resolved without any problem, although it requires clear thinking about how falsehood and negation works.

Let's go through this point by point.

1. A paradox is a statement that cannot be logically consistent. Any statement that has a logically consistent interpretation is therefore not a paradox.

Do you agree? We're going nowhere if we can't agree on the definition of a paradox.

2. Let us define what the possible false versions of your statement "everything I say is a lie" could be.

We can negate "lie", giving "everything I say is not a lie" or "everything I say is true".
Or we can negate "everything", giving "not everything I say is a lie" or "some things I say are true".
Both are completely reasonable and grammatically correct interpretations of the negation of that sentence.

If the only negation possible was "everything I say is true", then your statement would be a paradox. But it's not.

"Everything I say is a lie" can be false, meaning "some things I say are true". That particular statement is false, which does not contradict the statement "some things I say are true". There is a logically consistent interpretation of the sentence (albeit a non-obvious one), and so it is not a paradox.


What I meant in the previous post is this thread would be more sites to being a riddle game which has for more possibility to entertain rather than a thread full of paradoxes which will just serve to be a place for just that.

This thread seems to be working OK, as there are people who don't understand what is a paradox and what isn't.
 
:lol: Alright dude, whatever. I'm not going to keep on at it, this tread is already off track in the first few posts. I know what I mean. Imma just leave you to it. But feel free to PM if you feel the need. ;)

Edit: in case you were wondering.
 
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I'm guessing 50. You can only be correct or incorrect.
 
:lol: Alright dude, whatever. I'm not going to keep on at it, this tread is already off track in the first few posts. I know what I mean. Imma just leave you to it. But feel free to PM if you feel the need. ;)

Edit: in case you were wondering.

Amazing that you can post that link and still not understand how it works.

"This statement is false" is a paradox. What you posted, while you may think it is equivalent to that sentence, is not. Yours is a variation on the Epimenides paradox, which is one of the first things referenced in your link.
 
I've always been fascinated with this image. Whenever I see it I can't help but stop and stare at it, admiring it.

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Endless energy...
 
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I love the AE86 and the GT 86, but have no clue what the heck is the hubbub with Initial D. And i know i have the feeling that i will hate it.

Or maybe..

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Well, go back to a time you were not born yet. Kill one or your grandparents or parents or yourself as a baby. See if you're still around and tell us about it. If this thread is gone, we will know that grandfather paradox is true, or will we know. A GTP paradox maybe!
 

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