Paradox

[AngloScot]

What exactly is a paradox? Can you give me some examples please?

[Wraith]

The dictionary definition is as follows:-

 

par�a�dox    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (pr-dks)
n.
A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true: the paradox that standing is more tiring than walking.
One exhibiting inexplicable or contradictory aspects: �The silence of midnight, to speak truly, though apparently a paradox, rung in my ears� (Mary Shelley).
An assertion that is essentially self-contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises.
A statement contrary to received opinion. 

 

An example could be; imagine travelling back in time and killing your parents before you were born. If you did that, how could you be around in the future to travel back in time and kill your parents?

[gastwo]

'He heard the clock stop'?

[Hippy]

If I'm not mistaken, the world will end in a week.

[delapeyre64]

You travel back in time and kill your father. How did you get born in the first place to travel back?

[palfreyman18]

Some paradoxes used in some of shakespear's plays:

When the battle's lost and won

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair

Other:

If you want peace then you must be prepared for war

[ama]

in pirates of penzance they described someone who was born on 29th of February as a paradox, a paradox a most ingenious paradox.

[NoGood Boyo]

I can't answer this question because I haven't read it.