I was thinking about paradoxes, and started looking some of them up out of curiosity. And then it turned into a poem. I've listed the paradoxes in the same order as the lines they refer to, below the poem, if you don't understand a line or if you want to look into them further.
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Ravens are black because here's an apple that is green.
The ladder fits in the garage if you give it enough speed.
Adding one grain at a time will never create a heap.
If this sentence is true, then fine jewelry is cheap.
This sentence is not true; this is false; I'm lying.
Time travelers should worry about their grandparents dying.
If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing at all.
A cat with buttered toast on its back: how will it fall?
My friends have more friends than I do; so do yours.
"It's raining but I don't believe it's raining" (while it pours).
Schrodinger's cat will be alive and it won't.
You can't search for what you know or what you don't.
"The smallest positive integer not definable in fewer than twelve words" just was.
If the barber only shaves those who don't shave themselves, who gives him a buzz?
Is "heterological" applicable to itself? Hard to say.
It's Opposite Day today... so it must not be today.
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Raven paradox
Ladder paradox
Paradox of the heap (or Sorites paradox)
Curry's paradox
Liar paradox
Grandfather paradox
Socratic paradox
Buttered cat paradox
Friendship paradox
Moore's paradox
Schrodinger's cat paradox
Meno's paradox
Berry paradox
Barber paradox
Grelling-Nelson paradox
Opposite Day
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