Paradox

Cuonzo, Margaret (Long Island University)

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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. 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. An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.
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Cuonzo, Margaret (Long Island University)
Titel
Paradox
Uitgever
MIT Press Ltd
Jaar
2014
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
240
Gewicht
249 gr
EAN
9780262525497
Afmetingen
171 x 127 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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