@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {Poundstone, W.}, subject = {Paradoxes}, note = {I 47 Ravenparadox/Poundstone: "This herring is red" supports both contra positions: a) "All non-black things are non-ravens" and "all non-white things are non-ravens" (contra position of "All ravens are white") - it follows:. black is white - that is the paradox. I 66 Does not need to be a paradox if the number of objects is finite. >Infinity. I 175 Knowledge paradox/prisoners paradox/Poundstone: (unexpected execution) only works if the other thinks about the situation and draws wrong conclusions. >Knowledge paradox. I 192 Knowledge paradox/prisoners paradox/Quine/Poundstone: (unexpected execution) the "knowledge" here is an illusion. - The first conclusion, after which the prisoners cannot be executed on the last day is not valid. The illogical is better off: he can suspect the right. - The assumption of a specific day causes that the execution can take place on any day. Poundstone: error: the assumption when the impossible is excluded, there should remain something possible. - If the prisoner assumes the impossibility, he can be executed on any day. I 221 Thomson's lamp/Poundstone: the light turns on for 1/2 minutes, then off for 1/4 minutes, then on for 1/8 ... Total: 1. Question: is it on or off after 1 min? (Sum of infinite elements). This is the wrong question. Analog: if the greatest number is odd/even. I 228 Ultimately physical limit: frequency, energy, switchers. Cf. >Zeno, >About Zeno. I 224 Zenon/Achilles/Poundstone: Solution: overtaking after 111,111 ... cm - the "infinity" lies in Zenon's analysis, not in physics. Arrow paradox: even in the relativity theory the moment remains blurry. - Also here we believe in cause and effect: the present determines the future. >Cause, >Effect, >Causation, >Causality, cf. >Determinism. How does the arrow know, where it must go? - This is no physical problem, the row term is no solution. I 236 Olbers Paradox: four times the area balances four times weaker radiation - it would heat up on earth to the average temperature of stars - solution: redshift. >Olbers Paradox. I 243 Tristram Shandy paradox/Russell/Poundstone: if he lived infinitly long, there would remain no day undescribed because there could be no day mentioned, for which it would be impossible. - A one-to-one allocation is possible but never completed. But not at reversal infinite past: you cannot make an unambiguous assignment of certain days to certain years. - In the last year he cannot have written about one day of this year, - There will be an infinitly long incomplete manuscript. >Time, >Past, >Future, >Present. I 400 Paradox/antinomy/Poundstone: general form: the illusion that all truth is also recognizable. Unexpected execution: the victim is wrong because he thinks he can achieve something through logical reasoning, which is impossible to achieve in that way. Newcomb's paradox: the one who makes the prediction, cannot know his own thoughts. >Newcomb's paradox.}, note = { Poundstone I William Poundstone Labyrinths of Reason, NY, 1988 German Edition: Im Labyrinth des Denkens Hamburg 1995 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=253810} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=253810} }