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All answers to “Name a famous paradox”
The complete list: 75 answers, 75 of them longer than one word, with the alternative spellings that also count. Rarity stays hidden.
A
- Abilene paradox
- Allais paradox
B
- Banach–Tarski paradoxalso Banach-Tarski paradox
- Bell's spaceship paradox
- Berry paradox
- Bertrand's paradox
- Birthday paradoxalso Birthday problem
- Black hole information paradoxalso Information paradox
- Bootstrap paradox
- Braess's paradox
- Burali-Forti paradox
- Buridan's ass
C
- Cantor's paradox
- Condorcet paradoxalso Voting paradox
- Crocodile dilemma
- Curry's paradox
D
- Diamond–water paradoxalso Paradox of value
E
- Easterlin paradox
- Ehrenfest paradox
- Ellsberg paradox
- Epicurean paradoxalso Epicurus' trilemma
- Epimenides paradox
- EPR paradoxalso Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox
F
- Faint young Sun paradox
- Fermi paradox
- Fitch's paradox of knowabilityalso Fitch's paradox
G
- Galileo's paradox
- Gibbs paradox
- Giffen paradox
- Grandfather paradox
- Grelling–Nelson paradoxalso Heterological paradox
H
- Hempel's raven paradoxalso Raven paradox
- Hilbert's hotelalso Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
J
- Jevons paradox
L
- Ladder paradoxalso Barn-pole paradox
- Leontief paradox
- Liar paradox
- Löb's paradoxalso Lob's paradox
- Loschmidt's paradox
- Lottery paradox
M
- Mere addition paradoxalso Repugnant conclusion
- Monty Hall problemalso Monty Hall paradox
- Moravec's paradox
N
- Newcomb's paradoxalso Newcomb's problem
O
- Olbers' paradox
- Omnipotence paradoxalso Stone paradox
P
- Paradox of choice
- Paradox of enrichment
- Paradox of fiction
- Paradox of hedonism
- Paradox of thrift
- Paradox of tolerancealso Tolerance paradox
- Parrondo's paradox
- Peto's paradox
- Pinocchio paradox
- Plankton paradox
- Preface paradox
- Prisoner's dilemma
- Protagoras paradoxalso Paradox of the court
Q
- Quine's paradox
R
- Richard's paradox
- Russell's paradox
S
- Schrödinger's catalso Schrodinger's cat
- Ship of Theseus
- Simpson's paradox
- Skolem's paradox
- Sleeping Beauty problem
- Sorites paradoxalso Paradox of the heap
- St. Petersburg paradoxalso Saint Petersburg paradox
- Stockdale paradox
T
- Twin paradoxalso Twins paradox
- Two envelopes problemalso Two envelopes paradox
U
- Unexpected hanging paradoxalso Surprise exam paradox
Y
- Yablo's paradox
Z
- Zeno's paradoxalso Zeno's paradoxes, Achilles and the tortoise
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