Paradox (Record no. 391460)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780262525497
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Classification number 165
Item number C8P2
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Personal name Cuonzo, Margaret
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Title Paradox
Statement of responsibility, etc. Cuonzo, Margaret
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Brooklyn
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
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Extent xiv, 225 p.
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Series statement The MIT Press essential knowledge series
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Bibliography, etc. note Table of content<br/><br/>1. Is there trouble in paradox?<br/>2. New way to think about paradoxes and solutions<br/>3. How to solve paradoxes<br/>4. Paradox lost? On the successes (and failures) of solutions to paradoxes.<br/><br/><br/>
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Summary, etc. 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. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/paradox<br/><br/>
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Paradox
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Intuition
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