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Raven paradox.
First proposed by the celebrated German
Raven paradox. First proposed by the celebrated German philosopher and logician Carl Hempel (1905–1997) in the 1940s, to illustrate a contradiction...
Raven paradox. First proposed by the celebrated German philosopher and logician Carl Hempel (1905–1997) in the 1940s, to illustrate a contradiction...
Zenos paradox
Attributed to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Zenos paradox Attributed to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea who lived from c. 490 - c. 430 BCE. Imagine an arrow is shot at a targe...
Zenos paradox Attributed to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea who lived from c. 490 - c. 430 BCE. Imagine an arrow is shot at a targe...
The Molyneux problem
Posed in 1688 by the Irish scientist and
The Molyneux problem Posed in 1688 by the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux (1656–1698) in a letter to John Locke. This seemingly in...
The Molyneux problem Posed in 1688 by the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux (1656–1698) in a letter to John Locke. This seemingly in...
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an indepe...
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an indepe...
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