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Paradoxes:

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Cambridge University Press, 1995 - Philosophy - 165 pages
A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises. Unlike party puzzles or brain teasers, many paradoxes are serious in that they raise serious philosophical problems, and are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. To grapple with them is not merely to engage in an intellectual game, but to come to grips with issues of real import. The second, revised edition of this intriguing book expands and updates the text to take account of new work on the subject. It provides a valuable and accessible introduction to a range of paradoxes and their possible solutions, with questions designed to engage the reader with the arguments and full bibliographical references to both classic and current literature on the topic.
  

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User Review  - Philip Naw - Goodreads

Very nice book. It is not too demanding, it starts with the simpler paradoxes slowly working up to the more difficult paradoxes. Although the author takes the position that the difficult paradoxes ... Read full review

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User Review  - Anna - Goodreads

The book is organized beginning simply and moving toward more and more difficult paradoxes. Reading this, and the class it was a text for, was one of the few times in my life where I've really felt ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
Zenos paradoxes space time and motion
5
12 Space
7
13 The Racetrack
12
14 The Racetrack again
16
15 Achilles and the Tortoise
20
16 The Arrow
21
Bibliographical notes
22
44 The Knower
98
Bibliographical notes
103
Classes and truth
107
semantic defects
111
53 Grounding and truth
114
54 The Strengthened Liar
116
55 Levels
118
56 Selfreference
121

Vagueness the paradox of the heap
23
the options
28
Ungers view
30
the epistemic theory
32
supervaluations
33
degrees of truth
40
27 Vague objects?
47
Bibliographical notes
50
Acting rationally
53
32 The Prisoners Dilemma
66
Bibliographical notes
72
Believing rationally
73
412 The paradox of the Ravens
78
413 Grue
81
42 The Unexpected Examination
91
43 Revising the Unexpected Examination
93
57 Indexicality
122
58 Indexical circularity
124
how similar are Russells paradox and the Liar?
126
Bibliographical notes
130
Are any contradictions acceptable?
135
61 Contradictions entail everything
136
62 A sentence which is both true and false could have no intelligible content
137
63 Three dualities
138
64 Negation
140
65 Falsehood and untruth
142
Bibliographical notes
144
Some more paradoxes
145
Remarks on some text questions and appended paradoxes
151
Bibliography
155
Index
163
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Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides' doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Zeno's_paradoxes

Some paradoxes - an anthology
Maintained by Geoff Wilkins - email paradoxes@geoffwilkins.net 3710400 hits between October 2006 and March 2008 Click the W links for related Wikipedia ...
www.paradoxes.co.uk/

PL 561: PARADOXES, 2006 PL 561: PARADOXES, 2006 PL 561: PARADOXES ...
The study of paradoxes is one of the best routes into Philosophy, ... Different paradoxes are connected with various other subjects that you have studied, ...
www.kent.ac.uk/ secl/ philosophy/ Courses/ part2/ pl561info06-07.pdf

440 Volume 6, no. 4 (October 1996) Paradoxes, Second Edition by rm ...
rm Sainsbury's text Paradoxes is a partial remedy, as it is ... for a treatment of the philosophically rich paradoxes of induction and truth. ...
projecteuclid.org/ DPubS/ Repository/ 1.0/ Disseminate?handle=euclid.rml/ 1204835797& view=body& content-type=pdf_1

JSTOR: Paradoxes
Paradoxes By rm Sainsbury Cambridge University Press, 1988, vii+163 pp., ?22.50 This is a survey of some well known paradoxes, beginning with those of Zeno, ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0031-8191(199001)65%3A251%3C106%3AP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Zeno's paradoxes: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
Zeno's paradox ( ′zēnōz ′parə′däks ) ( mathematics ) An erroneous group of paradoxes dealing with motion; the most famous one concerns two objects,
www.answers.com/ topic/ zeno-s-paradoxes

Structural Similarity or Structuralism? Comments on Priest’s ...
Graham Priest (1994) argued (1) that all the paradoxes of set theory and ... that paradoxes of self-reference in logics and set theory carry a similarity ...
mind.oxfordjournals.org/ cgi/ reprint/ 107/ 428/ 823.pdf

PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE PARADOXES OF CONFIRMATION Michael Beaney ...
Discussion by Michael Beaney in Disputatio of a paradox of confirmation due to Mark Sainsbury
disputatio.com/ articles/ 006-3.pdf

Published in Philosoohy and Phenomenological Research 42/166 ...
the surprise examination, and the paradoxes of self-reference. ... paradoxes. Along the way, rm Sainsbury peppers the reader ...
www.dartmouth.edu/ ~rasoren/ papers/ Sainsburyrev.pdf

Emiratio: Fun with Paradoxes
Fun with Paradoxes. I recently finished my presentation on Russell's paradox for ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Fun with Paradoxes: ...
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About the author (1995)

R. M. Sainsbury is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin. He also teaches in the Department of Philosophy, King's College, London. He was editor of the journal Mind for a decade from 1990 and his many publications include Reference Without Referents (2005, 2007) and Logical Forms, 2nd Edition (2000).

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