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An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are 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 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 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 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. New Download Paradox By Margaret Cuonzo For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I very much enjoyed this book, and its mathematical approach to classifying paradoxes is something I hadn t encountered before My only disappointment is that there was not a comprehensive overview or list of famous paradoxes.Smart book Clarifies much Not that I m not still confused.Heavy reading I m not sure I absorbed the full implications of the different ways of solving excusing paradoxes, but it was a geeky introduction to a field with no practical relevance to my life.I m not sure what led me to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, but I know I wanted Self Tracking The library didn t have it, however, so I took what I could get Paradox And, well, it was a pretty good book that devolved into a collegiate homework assignment somewhere past the halfway mark.Note, though, that expectations ...Pretty decent introductory text on the topic of paradoxes A good balance of general introduction, classification of solutions, and this history and future of the study of paradoxes, their implications, etc All in all, a fun read and very informative I feel like I took away several particularly salient points about the various nuances and pitfalls of attempting to solve paradoxes that might be useful in my own work What kept this from being a 5...Great introductory text to the issue of paradoxes and the implications for scientific inquiry as well as philosophy.A fresh take on paradoxes Highly recommended.

Paradox
  • 03 May 2018
  • Paperback
  • 225 pages
  • 0262525496
  • Margaret Cuonzo
  • Paradox