Paradoxes

Forum_Helper1

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gigamushroom wrote:
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So a paradox infused in a riddle…

You're melting my brain. ._.

Oh wow. That really is confusing…
Congrats on the most complicated riddle/paradox here!

Warning: Complicated, and mind blowing.
Zeno's Paradox: I can prove you can't get anywhere. Before you get from where you are to where you wish to go, you first have to go halfway to the endpoint. From there, you go half of the remaining way. And halfway, on and on, but you can never reach your goal, because there will always be the smallest fraction of space you haven't gone through.
I can also prove you can't move. Similar to the above, I will use the same principals to prove you can't move. We already know that to get to your destination, you must first go halfway. In addition, before you get to the halfway point, you must first go halfway to the halfway point. And then before you get there, you must first go halfway. And on and on, you get smaller and smaller fractions of space you must first travel to. You can never move away from where you are.
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JonathanSchaffer

WolfCat67 wrote:
This sentence is false.
Quite possibly the simplest paradox, but still ridiculously complex if you look into it.

if it's false, it's true, so it's false. illuminati confirmed

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awsome_guy_360

JonathanSchaffer wrote:
WolfCat67 wrote:
This sentence is false.
Quite possibly the simplest paradox, but still ridiculously complex if you look into it.
if it's false, it's true, so it's false. illuminati confirmed

The sentence says that it is false… So the sentence is false.

However, since it says that itself is false, the fact that itself is false, is false… which makes it true.

But there's nothing to be made true… so it's still classified as false.

This goes on until it obliterates your brain.

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Forum_Helper1

awsome_guy_360 wrote:
JonathanSchaffer wrote:
WolfCat67 wrote:
This sentence is false.
Quite possibly the simplest paradox, but still ridiculously complex if you look into it.
if it's false, it's true, so it's false. illuminati confirmed

The sentence says that it is false… So the sentence is false.

However, since it says that itself is false, the fact that itself is false, is false… which makes it true.

But there's nothing to be made true… so it's still classified as false.

This goes on until it obliterates your brain.

Except for the fact that it can't obliterate your brain. See, before it obliterates your brain, it has to half-obliterate your brain. And half of he remaining. On and on, but it can't obliterate it!

Don't you love paradoxes!

Warning: Complicated, and mind blowing.
Zeno's Paradox: I can prove you can't get anywhere. Before you get from where you are to where you wish to go, you first have to go halfway to the endpoint. From there, you go half of the remaining way. And halfway, on and on, but you can never reach your goal, because there will always be the smallest fraction of space you haven't gone through.
I can also prove you can't move. Similar to the above, I will use the same principals to prove you can't move. We already know that to get to your destination, you must first go halfway. In addition, before you get to the halfway point, you must first go halfway to the halfway point. And then before you get there, you must first go halfway. And on and on, you get smaller and smaller fractions of space you must first travel to. You can never move away from where you are.
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awsome_guy_360

Forum_Helper1 wrote:
Except for the fact that it can't obliterate your brain. See, before it obliterates your brain, it has to half-obliterate your brain. And half of he remaining. On and on, but it can't obliterate it!
Don't you love paradoxes!

…

Does turning your brain into dust count?

I also have a small paradox of my own that I semi-created. =P

I'm running a small experiment, mind taking this?
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Forum_Helper1

awsome_guy_360 wrote:
Forum_Helper1 wrote:
Except for the fact that it can't obliterate your brain. See, before it obliterates your brain, it has to half-obliterate your brain. And half of he remaining. On and on, but it can't obliterate it!
Don't you love paradoxes!

…

Does turning your brain into dust count?

I also have a small paradox of my own that I semi-created. =P

Nice!

Warning: Complicated, and mind blowing.
Zeno's Paradox: I can prove you can't get anywhere. Before you get from where you are to where you wish to go, you first have to go halfway to the endpoint. From there, you go half of the remaining way. And halfway, on and on, but you can never reach your goal, because there will always be the smallest fraction of space you haven't gone through.
I can also prove you can't move. Similar to the above, I will use the same principals to prove you can't move. We already know that to get to your destination, you must first go halfway. In addition, before you get to the halfway point, you must first go halfway to the halfway point. And then before you get there, you must first go halfway. And on and on, you get smaller and smaller fractions of space you must first travel to. You can never move away from where you are.
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awsome_guy_360

Forum_Helper1 wrote:
Nice!

I always tell the truth, when I'm lying.

I adapted a sentence from elsewhere then modified it. So it might be a known paradox.

I'm running a small experiment, mind taking this?
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Forum_Helper1

This statement is false

Can also be:

1) Statement two is true
2) Statement one is false

Warning: Complicated, and mind blowing.
Zeno's Paradox: I can prove you can't get anywhere. Before you get from where you are to where you wish to go, you first have to go halfway to the endpoint. From there, you go half of the remaining way. And halfway, on and on, but you can never reach your goal, because there will always be the smallest fraction of space you haven't gone through.
I can also prove you can't move. Similar to the above, I will use the same principals to prove you can't move. We already know that to get to your destination, you must first go halfway. In addition, before you get to the halfway point, you must first go halfway to the halfway point. And then before you get there, you must first go halfway. And on and on, you get smaller and smaller fractions of space you must first travel to. You can never move away from where you are.
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JonathanSchaffer

Forum_Helper1 wrote:
This statement is false
Can also be:
1) Statement two is true
2) Statement one is false

*faints*

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I think I made up one once, but then I forgot it.

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jakel181

You walked to point A from Point B which between both points is a finite space, but similar to Zeno's paradox you must pass an infinite amount of check points to get there. So when you walk from point A to point B you walk through a finite space but you also walk through a infinite amount of check points but you always end up passing through the infinite amount of check points in a finite time thus arriving at point B with infinite time to spare. But when you turn back you decide to stop at each of the check points. So now what just took you a finite time to walk from point A to point B will now take you an infinite amount of time to get back from point B to point A.

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Uncle Joe and Uncle Jim are walking to the barber shop. There are three barbers who live and work in the shop—Allen, Brown, and Carr—but not all of them are always in the shop. Carr is a good barber, and Uncle Jim is keen to be shaved by him. He knows that the shop is open, so at least one of them must be in. He also knows that Allen is a very nervous man, so that he never leaves the shop without Brown going with him.

Uncle Joe insists that Carr is certain to be in, and then claims that he can prove it logically. Uncle Jim demands the proof. Uncle Joe reasons as follows.

Suppose that Carr is out. If Carr is out, then if Allen is also out Brown would have to be in, since someone must be in the shop for it to be open. However, we know that whenever Allen goes out he takes Brown with him, and thus we know as a general rule that if Allen is out, Brown is out. So if Carr is out then the statements “if Allen is out then Brown is in” and “if Allen is out then Brown is out” would both be true at the same time.

Uncle Joe notes that this seems paradoxical; the two “hypotheticals” seem “incompatible” with each other. So, by contradiction, Carr must logically be in.

However, the correct conclusion to draw from the incompatibility of the two “hypotheticals” is that what is hypothesised in them (that Allen is out) must be false under our assumption that Carr is out. Then our logic simply allows us to arrive at the conclusion “If Carr is out, then Allen must necessarily be in”.

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Claim: If you give me a head start, I can beat you in any race.

“Facts”
1) If you give me a head start, I will start out in front of you.
2) Once you start, in order to catch up to me, you first have to go to where I was when you started.
3) In the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved to a new location. I will still be in front of you.
4) You now have to get to where I am, but during the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved forward.
5) Repeat step 4 forever.

You will never catch up to me, because I will always be in front of you. I will win the race.

Warning: Complicated, and mind blowing.
Zeno's Paradox: I can prove you can't get anywhere. Before you get from where you are to where you wish to go, you first have to go halfway to the endpoint. From there, you go half of the remaining way. And halfway, on and on, but you can never reach your goal, because there will always be the smallest fraction of space you haven't gone through.
I can also prove you can't move. Similar to the above, I will use the same principals to prove you can't move. We already know that to get to your destination, you must first go halfway. In addition, before you get to the halfway point, you must first go halfway to the halfway point. And then before you get there, you must first go halfway. And on and on, you get smaller and smaller fractions of space you must first travel to. You can never move away from where you are.
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gigamushroom

Forum_Helper1 wrote:
Claim: If you give me a head start, I can beat you in any race.

“Facts”
1) If you give me a head start, I will start out in front of you.
2) Once you start, in order to catch up to me, you first have to go to where I was when you started.
3) In the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved to a new location. I will still be in front of you.
4) You now have to get to where I am, but during the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved forward.
5) Repeat step 4 forever.

You will never catch up to me, because I will always be in front of you. I will win the race.

I actually don't think that is true, unless we're travelling at the same velocity, which is improbable.

It also depends on the time duration between your head start and my start.

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Forum_Helper1

gigamushroom wrote:
Forum_Helper1 wrote:
Claim: If you give me a head start, I can beat you in any race.

“Facts”
1) If you give me a head start, I will start out in front of you.
2) Once you start, in order to catch up to me, you first have to go to where I was when you started.
3) In the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved to a new location. I will still be in front of you.
4) You now have to get to where I am, but during the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved forward.
5) Repeat step 4 forever.

You will never catch up to me, because I will always be in front of you. I will win the race.
I actually don't think that is true, unless we're travelling at the same velocity, which is improbable.

It also depends on the time duration between your head start and my start.

It actually does not depend on any of those things, as long as I am given a head start, and I continue to move forward, no matter what my speed is, or your speed.

Warning: Complicated, and mind blowing.
Zeno's Paradox: I can prove you can't get anywhere. Before you get from where you are to where you wish to go, you first have to go halfway to the endpoint. From there, you go half of the remaining way. And halfway, on and on, but you can never reach your goal, because there will always be the smallest fraction of space you haven't gone through.
I can also prove you can't move. Similar to the above, I will use the same principals to prove you can't move. We already know that to get to your destination, you must first go halfway. In addition, before you get to the halfway point, you must first go halfway to the halfway point. And then before you get there, you must first go halfway. And on and on, you get smaller and smaller fractions of space you must first travel to. You can never move away from where you are.
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Warning: Complicated, and mind blowing.
Zeno's Paradox: I can prove you can't get anywhere. Before you get from where you are to where you wish to go, you first have to go halfway to the endpoint. From there, you go half of the remaining way. And halfway, on and on, but you can never reach your goal, because there will always be the smallest fraction of space you haven't gone through.
I can also prove you can't move. Similar to the above, I will use the same principals to prove you can't move. We already know that to get to your destination, you must first go halfway. In addition, before you get to the halfway point, you must first go halfway to the halfway point. And then before you get there, you must first go halfway. And on and on, you get smaller and smaller fractions of space you must first travel to. You can never move away from where you are.
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jbv05

How about this one:

There is a barber in a town who only cuts the hair of people who are careless enough to not cut thir own hair. Therefore, the barber will only cut his hair if he doesn't do so himself.

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jbv05

gigamushroom wrote:
Forum_Helper1 wrote:
Claim: If you give me a head start, I can beat you in any race.

“Facts”
1) If you give me a head start, I will start out in front of you.
2) Once you start, in order to catch up to me, you first have to go to where I was when you started.
3) In the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved to a new location. I will still be in front of you.
4) You now have to get to where I am, but during the time it takes you to get to that point, I will have moved forward.
5) Repeat step 4 forever.

You will never catch up to me, because I will always be in front of you. I will win the race.
I actually don't think that is true, unless we're travelling at the same velocity, which is improbable.

It also depends on the time duration between your head start and my start.

This is correct, because you might be the slowest person in the world, and I might be the fastest. Also, Another aspect is the rate. You could stop to take a break, or go slower.

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