Paradox

A logical inconsistency that leads to self-contradiction or a situation in which all premises seem correct But cannot all be true. Typically, the premises of a paradox are ambiguous, not all really true, or cannot all be true at the same time. The word paradox is often taken to mean contradiction. but a true contradiction cannot be true, while for many paradoxes resolution is possible. Three classes of paradoxes were defined by Quine (62): “A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to be true nevertheless. A falsidical paradox establishes a result that not only appears false but actually is false; there is a fallacy in the supposed demonstration. A paradox that is in neither class may be an antinomy, which reaches a self-contradictory result by properly applying accepted ways of reasoning. “