Paradox Lost

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319904900

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Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy’s most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions. The following paradoxes are included: The Liar Paradox, in which a sentence says of itself that it is false. Is the sentence true or false? The Sorites Paradox, in which we imagine removing grains of sand one at a time from a heap of sand. Is there a particular grain whose removal converts the heap to a non-heap? The Puzzle of the Self-Torturer, in which a series of seemingly rational choices has us accepting a life of excruciating pain, in exchange for millions of dollars. Newcomb’s Problem, in which we seemingly maximize our expected profit by taking an unknown sum of money, rather than taking the same sum plus $1000. The Surprise Quiz Paradox, in which a professor finds that it is impossible to give a surprise quiz on any particular day of the week . . . but also that if this is so, then a surprise quiz can be given on any day. The Two Envelope Paradox, in which we are asked to choose between two indistinguishable envelopes, and it is seemingly shown that each envelope is preferable to the other. The Ravens Paradox, in which observing a purple shoe provides evidence that all ravens are black. The Shooting Room Paradox, in which a deadly game kills 90% of all who play, yet each individual’s survival turns on the flip of a fair coin. Each paradox is clearly described, common mistakes are explored, and a clear, logical solution offered. Paradox Lost will appeal to professional philosophers, students of philosophy, and all who love intellectual puzzles.

Author : Richard P. Hansen
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310518396

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Too often the tensions and unanswerable questions of Scripture and the Christian life are seen as barriers to faith. In Paradox Lost, pastor and author Richard Hansen shows that they are exactly the opposite -- indeed, God’s mysteries are one of the places where we may encounter him most closely. In exchange for Enlightenment-based rationalism that can stunt spiritual imagination, Hansen invites readers to: Discern that there is a hiddenness to God that can be inviting rather than threatening Appreciate that God is far greater than we sometimes assume, and to adjust our mental maps to make more space for awe Realize that faith and reason are not enemies but rather dance partners that complement one another Hansen examines three kinds, or “orders” of biblical paradox, each at a deeper level than the last, demonstrating for readers that paradox is both endemic to modern life and also a natural part of the landscape of Christian faith. Paradox Lost doesn’t seek to solve or justify paradox; instead, it looks through paradox toward what it reveals--namely a holy, mysterious, and awesome God.

Author : Alfred Ward
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781411622975

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PARADOX LOST speaks for itself. .

Author : Catherine Skurja
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780985310417

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What if there was a way to peel back the broken and tattered pieces of ourselves, and uncover a new life of freedom, adventure, and transformation? For many of us, our misconceptions about the nature and character of the triune God have kept us from the freedom and joy found in our true identity in Christ. Damaging cycles of shame and the endless effort to look the part keep us trapped in drama and fear. Unable to grasp the paradox of a God who is both Lion and Lamb, we end up feeling alone, stuck on the banks of the river while a life of passion and adventure beckons. Using stories of transformation, Paradox Lost presents a framework for understanding our patterns of “stuckness” and provides specific tools for getting off the riverbanks and into the current. With life-giving insight into God’s nature, readers will find the courage to uncover their own wounded places, as well as invite others to experience the wholeness of abundant life in Christ.

Author : Libby Drew
Publisher : Carina Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426897832

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Time-travel tour guide Reegan McNamara's job—taking eager tourists to whenever they want to go—is usually a breeze. A trip back to 2020 to watch a world-changing speech seems no different, until a woman runs away from his tour group before the jump home. Now her tycoon husband is demanding her safe return—or Reegan will lose more than just his job. P.I. Saul Kildare's business is running on borrowed time. Due to a messy break with the police, he can't get a referral to save his life. When an enigmatic stranger bangs on his door one night and promises a windfall for a missing-person case, it seems too good to be true. But the two men have an immediate connection, and Saul can't pass up the chance to spend more time with Reegan, even if he's clearly hiding something. Saul knows he shouldn't trust Reegan, and Reegan knows he can't get involved with Saul. But as their attraction evolves into feelings neither can deny, will they have the strength to take a leap of faith—together? 84,000 words

Author : Philip R. Wallace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461240143

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"Medical scientists use the word `iatrogenic' to refer to disabilities that are the consequence of medical treatment. We believe that some such word might be coined to refer to philosophical difficulties for which philosophers themselves are responsible" Sir Peter Medawar Arguing that quantum theory as it stands is perhaps the most comprehensive, well-verified, and successful theory in the history of science, the author clears away the impression that it is an incomplete, philosophically flawed, and self-contradictory theory. In simple terms accessible to anyone with a little prior knowledge of science, Wallace examines the numerous "paradoxes" and "difficulties" claimed for quantum mechanics, and shows that they are due to excesses of interpretation that have been imposed on the theory.

Author : George Mann
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446416907

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Doctor Who: Paradox Lost by George Mann Pdf

'The Squall feed on psychic energy. They spread like a plague and if they are not stopped they will strip the Earth clean...' London 1910: an unsuspecting thief finds himself confronted by grey-skinned creatures that are waiting to devour his mind. London 2789: the remains of an ancient android are dredged from the Thames. When reactivated it has a warning that can only be delivered to a man named 'the Doctor'. The Doctor and his friends must solve a mystery that has spanned over a thousand years. If they fail, the deadly alien Squall will devour the world. A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

Author : Sherry L. Lebeck
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781581120868

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Paradox Lost and Paradox Regained by Sherry L. Lebeck Pdf

This study uses two short stories by Flannery O'Connor (Good country people and The enduring chill) to explore D.W. Winnicott's theory of early childhood development.

Author : Council of Canadian Academies
Publisher : Council of CanadianAcademies
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Research, Industrial
ISBN : 9781926558714

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Paradox Lost: Explaining Canada’s Research Strength and Innovation Weakness by Council of Canadian Academies Pdf

"The Council of Canadian Academies (the Council) has, since 2006, completed seven expert panel assessments analyzing in great depth Canada's performance in science and technology (S&T) and innovation. This document synthesizes the main findings of that work, from which two main conclusions emerge: Canadian academic research, overall, is strong and well regarded internationally; Canadian business innovation, by contrast, is weak by international standards, and this is the primary cause of Canada's poor productivity growth"--Executive summary.

Author : Carlos Schenck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Sleep disorders
ISBN : 0976373408

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At night, during sleep - Who acts-out their dreams, goes "night-flying," has super-human strength and speed, gets hurt or hurts their partner in bed? Who eats food without control, and gains weight? Who has unusual or hurtful sexual behaviors? Who has sleep terrors, with screaming, running around, and jumping through windows? Who becomes violent, with punching and kicking? Who sleepwalks and leaves the house, drives a car, wiggles like a seal, or barks like a dog? Who has legs that are restless and jump around? Who has non-stop dreaming and feels exhausted in the morning? Who becomes paralyzed while falling asleep or waking up and has frightening visions? Who has "extreme sleep"? Important New Findings: Current research has shown that 2% of people engage in sleep violence; almost 1% enact their dreams; 5% have involuntary sleep-related eating; 3% have sleep terrors; up to 10% have sleepwalking; 4% have "confusional arousals" with agitation; at least 5% have episodes of "sleep paralysis;" 10% have restless legs; and the list goes on. Therapy of these conditions is usually effective and safe. In this book, physician and scientist, Carlos H. Schenck, MD, tells his story of helping discover the "dream-enacting" disorder in 1982, which he and his colleagues named the "Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder" - RBD. Since the time that RBD was first reported by Dr. Schenck et al. in 1985, thousands of cases of RBD from around the world have been published in medical journals. RBD is now recognized as one of the most important clinical discoveries on sleep since the time REM sleep was discovered in 1953. Dr. Schenck has also helped discover other sleep behavior disorders ("parasomnias"). Dr. Schenck now shares the stories told to him by many of his parasomnia patients and their families, who describe their fascinating yet dangerous and strange tales from "the far side of sleep." Dr. Schenck discusses the science of parasomnias, and its connection with the brain sciences, clinical medicine, psychology, law and literature. This book should interest people affected by parasomnias or other sleep disorders; and those interested in sleep, dreams, and human behavior from various perspectives; students and professionals in medicine, nursing, sleep technology, biology, neuroscience, law, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and other fields.

Author : Linda G. Elson
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215469722

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Author : Philip R. Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461284686

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"Medical scientists use the word `iatrogenic' to refer to disabilities that are the consequence of medical treatment. We believe that some such word might be coined to refer to philosophical difficulties for which philosophers themselves are responsible" Sir Peter Medawar Arguing that quantum theory as it stands is perhaps the most comprehensive, well-verified, and successful theory in the history of science, the author clears away the impression that it is an incomplete, philosophically flawed, and self-contradictory theory. In simple terms accessible to anyone with a little prior knowledge of science, Wallace examines the numerous "paradoxes" and "difficulties" claimed for quantum mechanics, and shows that they are due to excesses of interpretation that have been imposed on the theory.

Author : Fredric Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008343736

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Paradox Lost, and Twelve Other Great Science Fiction Stories by Fredric Brown Pdf

13 Science Fiction stories. Paradox Lost, Puppet Show, The Last Train, It Didn't Happen, Knock, Obedience, Ten Percenter, Aelurophobe, Wine Kleine Nachtmusik, Nothing sirius, The New One, Double Standard, Something Green, all Science Fiction Stories.

Author : Margaret Cuonzo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262525497

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An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set of mutually inconsistent claims, each of which seems true. Paradoxes emerge not just in salons and ivory towers but in everyday life. (An Internet search for “paradox” brings forth a picture of an ashtray with a “no smoking” symbol inscribed on it.) Proposing solutions, Cuonzo writes, is a natural response to paradoxes. She invites us to rethink paradoxes by focusing on strategies for solving them, arguing that there is much to be learned from this, regardless of whether any of the more powerful paradoxes is even capable of solution. Cuonzo offers a catalog of paradox-solving strategies—including the Preemptive-Strike (questioning the paradox itself), the Odd-Guy-Out (calling one of the assumptions into question), and the You-Can't-Get-There-from-Here (denying the validity of the reasoning). She argues that certain types of solutions work better in some contexts than others, and that as paradoxicality increases, the success of certain strategies grows more unlikely. Cuonzo shows that the processes of paradox generation and solution proposal are interesting and important ones. Discovering a paradox leads to advances in knowledge: new science often stems from attempts to solve paradoxes, and the concepts used in the new sciences lead to new paradoxes. As Niels Bohr wrote, “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

Author : The Oatmeal,Matthew Inman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781449437718

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My Dog: The Paradox by The Oatmeal,Matthew Inman Pdf

This eponymous comic became an instant hit when it went live on The Oatmeal.com and was liked on Facebook by 700,000 fans. Now fans will have a keepsake book of this comic to give and to keep. In My Dog: The Paradox, Inman discusses the canine penchant for rolling in horse droppings, chasing large animals four times their size, and acting recklessly enthusiastic through the entirety of their impulsive, lovable lives. Hilarious and heartfelt, My Dog: The Paradox eloquently illustrates the complicated relationship between man and dog. We will never know why dogs fear hair dryers, or being baited into staring contests with cats, but as Inman explains, perhaps we love dogs so much “because their lives aren’t lengthy, logical, or deliberate, but an explosive paradox composed of fur, teeth, and enthusiasm.”