What are some examples of paradoxes?

Answer 1

1. What happens when an irresistable force hits an immovable object?

2. Can God create a rock so heavy that he cannot lift it? Either way, he's not all powerful!

3. "I always lie."

Of course, there are no "true" paradoxes. Just false language or logic. The above have answers:

1. You find out which one was not.

2. He can create an infinitely heavy rock and still lift it. The fact that his creative ability is infinite, and his strength matches it, is not an admission that there is "one thing he can't create". It's saying rather "His all powerfulness does not negate itself."

3. Obviously while lying may be his general habit, to the extent that it is, this time it is not.

Answer 2

Paradoxes are really hard to understand, but this one isn't that hard

The time-traveling grandma-killer.

Suppose you build a time machine, go back in time to find your grandmother when she was three years old, and then drown her in the bathtub.

So she never grows up, and never has any kids.

Therefore, one of your parents was never born.

Therefore, YOU were never born.

Therefore, you never traveled back in time and killed your infant grandma.

So she DID grow up and have kids.

Therefore, your parent WAS born.

Therefore, YOU were born.

Therefore, you traveled back in time and killed your infant grandma.

Ad infinitum.

Jiwon Park, 5th grader

Answer 3

A paradox is a figure of speech that appears to contradict itself. Examples of a paradox is I always lie or you can save money by spending it.