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Paradox (Paperback)
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
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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."
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